Boris Johnson survives no confidence vote - but what's next?
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Telegraph's Associate Editor Camilla Tominey and Whitehall Correspondent Tony Diver join Christopher Hope at Telegraph towers to react to Monday night's no confidence vote in Boris Johnson. The Prime Minister may have secured the support of 211 Tories against 148 rebels, but are there still choppy waters ahead? The gang place their bets on if the PM will still be leading the party by the next election, consider whether the Conservatives can please both heartland and Red Wall voters, and discuss potential next leaders, from the one we all know about (cough Jeremy Hunt) to the other contenders circling the top job.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I can report as returning officer that 359 ballots were cast, no spoiled |
| 0:12.1 | ballots, that the vote in favour of having confidence in Boris Johnson's |
| 0:18.4 | leader was 211 votes, and the vote against was 148 votes. |
| 0:23.0 | And therefore I can announce that the parliamentary party does have confidence. Yes, Boris Johnson has weathered the most recent storm of a no-confidence vote in his leadership. |
| 0:42.2 | But does this mean that the future is plain sailing for our |
| 0:45.6 | Prime Minister or our choppy waters ahead? Well I'm chopper, Christopher Hope, Associate Editor for Politics at the Daily Telegraph, and this is Chopper's Politics. |
| 0:58.0 | And with me to discuss what happened last night are two of the best people we have at |
| 1:03.5 | telegraph for just this dissection the morning after. Camilla Tomini, our |
| 1:08.4 | associate editor and Tony Diver, Wightall correspondent. |
| 1:12.6 | Tony, to you first, what happened? |
| 1:15.6 | Well, I think the top line, Chris, |
| 1:16.7 | is that Boris Johnson took a huge hit |
| 1:18.8 | to his personal authority as both as Prime Minister |
| 1:22.4 | and as leader of the Conservative Party, |
| 1:24.0 | 148 of his own MPs said that they didn't have confidence in his leadership |
| 1:29.0 | versus 211 who said that they did. |
| 1:32.1 | So he won the vote, he's through, there doesn't need to be a leadership |
| 1:35.0 | contest which is what we thought could happen, but there were a lot more people who voted against |
| 1:39.4 | them, a lot more rebels than even a lot of the most optimistic people against him thought. |
| 1:44.0 | Camilla Tomini on that point that Tony raises, |
| 1:46.0 | were you surprised by the scale of the numbers of his own MPs |
| 1:49.0 | with no confidence in the Prime Minister? |
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