www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/boris-johnson-downing-street-labour-vote-of-no-confidence
Can someone please explain in light of the above, how the Parliamentary vote of no confidence plays into all this. If Labour call it tomorrow, which they need to, then won’t all the Tories will vote to say that they have confidence in a PM that in truth most of them do not have any confidence in… just to avoid an immediate general election? How does that work with Johnson clearly being so awful that he needs to step down as PM. Why isn’t he gone already?
Don’t the Tories need to have a replacement candidate to be ready to respond to losing a VONC? I think that’s what the Institute for government says. They clearly haven’t got that agreed. Maybe hence this lengthy leadership race to make sure of it. But then what happens tomorrow?
The IoG’s podcast (latest episode: called ‘exit means exit’) was talking about this point last week: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast
I’m really worried that Boris has played another blinder for his own benefit- we’ve all taken our eyes off him, while we’re worrying about the increasingly narrow and awful choices for the leadership competition… meanwhile he’s doing god knows what elsewhere to make sure he comes out of all this to his personal advantage. Not usually how it happens when people do really bad things in their job. 