Boris to face confidence vote tonight
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:17.9 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House shots, spectators, daily and sometimes more than daily |
| 0:22.8 | politics podcast. We have a sense that today could be one of those days where you hear from us |
| 0:27.1 | at multiple points. After months of anonymous threats and speculation, Boris Johnson is due |
| 0:32.1 | to face a confidence vote by his MPs this evening. Gray and Brady put out a statement this |
| 0:37.1 | morning that had the chair of the 1922 committee, which he said, the threshold of the 15% of the |
| 0:41.6 | parliamentary party seeking a vote of confidence in the leader of the Conservative party has been |
| 0:46.3 | exceeded. In accordance with the rules, a ballot will be held. That ballot will be held |
| 0:50.7 | between 6 and 8 tonight and votes be counted soon after. James, how much trouble has Boris Johnson |
| 0:57.2 | in? I mean, Boris Johnson is in a lot of trouble. I think that if the rebels had displayed some |
| 1:02.9 | strategic patience and waited until after these two biotexions coming up on June 23rd, he would be |
| 1:08.0 | in even more trouble. But I think the worry for Boris Johnson is he is not going to win this ballot |
| 1:13.2 | by such a decisive margin that he will be able to say that this is done. I don't think anyone |
| 1:19.1 | thinks that the rebels are only going to get 54 votes or 60 votes or 70 votes. It is going to be |
| 1:24.7 | north of that. And the large of a number is the more difficult it will be for Boris Johnson. |
| 1:29.9 | If he gets less than 63% of the vote that Theresa May got in her confidence vote, that will be |
| 1:34.8 | a massive blow to him. And I think the other problem that Theresa May discovered is the rules |
| 1:39.2 | notionally say that you are safe for a year. But it's the Tory party. There are no rules. They can |
| 1:44.4 | all be changed any moment. And the rebels will keep agitating for change, keep saying that new facts |
| 1:49.9 | have emerged. And it is also hard to say the only thing that I think really could change Boris |
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