Boris Johnson’s bruising no-confidence vote
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Boris Johnson on Monday night survived a bruising no-confidence vote, and Elon Musk’s legal team has written to Twitter threatening to abort his $44bn acquisition. Plus, the FT’s Kiran Stacey reports on Big Techs’ big fight against an effort by US lawmakers to halt the practice of “self-preferencing”.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Weakened Johnson scrapes through after damaging confidence vote
Elon Musk threatens to abandon $44bn Twitter takeover
Big Tech pulls out all the stops to halt ‘self-preferencing’ antitrust bill
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk. |
| 0:09.7 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:11.3 | Today is Tuesday, June 7th, and this is your FT News Briefing. |
| 0:18.6 | You know the feeling when you've paid the full price for something really high price, |
| 0:23.0 | and then after you've bought it, the price drops. |
| 0:26.4 | Yeah, Elon Musk knows that feeling pretty well right now. |
| 0:29.6 | Big tech companies are pulling out all the stops to protect one of their favorite practices. |
| 0:34.2 | But first, Boris Johnson just barely made it through a no-confidence vote last night. |
| 0:39.4 | We'll talk about what's next for the British Prime Minister. |
| 0:42.2 | I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:50.2 | Last night, lawmakers in Boris Johnson's own conservative party decided that he could stay on |
| 0:55.2 | as UK Prime Minister, but considering how close the confidence vote was, Johnson can hardly |
| 1:01.1 | call it a win. The vote was called out of frustration with Johnson's handling of the economy, |
| 1:06.1 | and getting caught up in the party gates scandal, where he violated coronavirus pandemic lockdown rules. |
| 1:11.6 | Here's the FT's political editor, George Parker. |
| 1:14.4 | Well, it's a remarkable thing, isn't it? |
| 1:15.8 | For over 40% of your own MPs to consider you not worthy of holding the office of Prime Minister, |
| 1:21.2 | makes it very hard for any Prime Minister to go to the country and ask people to support him when |
| 1:25.0 | 40% of your own MPs don't do it. Boris Johnson's authority has been badly damaged. |
| 1:29.9 | Now, of course, Boris Johnson has said that this clears the air, that it leaves in a position |
| 1:35.2 | where he can now concentrate on the problems facing the country. |
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