The wounded victor: What next for Boris Johnson?
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The Times
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🗓️ 8 June 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The prime minister's narrow win in a confidence vote on Monday night has left his political authority dented and his party even more deeply divided. Can Boris Johnson rebuild public trust and regain authority over his party, or is this the beginning of the end of his time in Downing Street?
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| 0:35.2 | It was a peric victory. Boris Johnson might have won on Monday night, but at what cost? |
| 0:44.2 | Good evening. The vote in favour of having confidence in Boris Johnson's leader was 211 votes, |
| 0:52.3 | and the vote against was 148 votes. And therefore I can announce that the parliamentary party |
| 0:59.6 | does have confidence. The Prime Minister's narrow victory may have won him a |
| 1:06.2 | brief, but he's emerged wounded. His party is now even more deeply divided, and his political |
| 1:14.4 | authority is bleeding out. Just two and a half years after Boris Johnson led his party to an |
| 1:22.2 | 80 seat majority in a general election. 148 of his colleagues voted to dump him. |
| 1:31.5 | Even one of his predecessors, as Tory leader, has spoken out. |
| 1:36.5 | This isn't viable actually when more than 40% of your party vote against you. |
| 1:41.7 | This is like trying to drive along the M1 with two flat tires. You know, you can say you're at |
| 1:46.7 | the steering wheel, but you're not going to get to the end of the motorway. It won't end well. |
| 1:53.4 | Boris Johnson, meanwhile, addressed Cabinet yesterday, confident that he could |
| 1:58.7 | buck history and wriggle free from this latest setback, just as he's done so often before. |
| 2:28.8 | Can he rebuild public trust and his authority over his party? Or is this the beginning of the end? |
| 2:40.6 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. I'm Manvine |
| 2:46.4 | Rana. Today, the wounded victor, what next for Boris Johnson? |
| 3:02.4 | I'm Caroline Wheeler and I'm the political editor of the Sunday Times. |
| 3:06.3 | Caroline, it's been an extraordinary few days in British politics, and before we get on to |
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