Is Boris Johnson safe after surviving confidence vote?

• Boris Johnson may have just survived a confidence vote last night, but he is far from safe.
• Scores of Tory MPs are already openly revolting, raising worries about his future.
• Ms. May survived the vote, but she was thrown out of her position as Prime Minister within six months.

Boris Johnson may have just survived a confidence vote last night, but he is far from safe.

Despite his narrow triumph, scores of Tory MPs are already openly revolting, raising worries about his future.

The prime minister won the vote by a margin of 211 to 148 (59 percent), putting him closer to being deposed than Theresa May did in 2018, when she fell short of the 63 percent needed to win.

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Ms. May survived the vote, but she was thrown out of her position as Prime Minister within six months.

Mr. Johnson, according to history, might be mortally harmed by the confidence vote, which spelled the end for Ms. May, as well as Conservative predecessors John Major and Margaret Thatcher – all of whom received proportionally better results than Mr. Johnson yesterday.

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Is Boris Johnson going to resign?

Allies of the Prime Minister believe he will not give up anytime soon.

Cabinet ministers have argued that because of Britain’s leading position in assisting Ukraine, now is not the time for him to leave.

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However, it is commonly believed that he has aspired to be Prime Minister his entire life and is unlikely to quit up now, with insiders earlier claiming that he planned to outlast Margaret Thatcher and stay in office for another decade.