UK Prime Minister Johnson set to face confidence vote After boos and ‘partygate’

• UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson could face a vote of confidence as soon as Monday, according to ITV’s UK editor, citing “rebels” in the ruling Conservative Party.
• Johnson, who was appointed prime minister in 2019, has been under increasing pressure because he has been unable to move on from a scathing revelation about parties hosted in his Downing Street office and apartment during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
• Dozens of Conservative lawmakers have expressed fear that Johnson, 57, has lost his authority to manage the United Kingdom, which is on the verge of recession, rising gasoline and food costs, and traffic havoc in the capital London due to strike action.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson could face a vote of confidence as soon as Monday, according to ITV’s UK editor, citing “rebels” in the ruling Conservative Party.

Johnson, who was appointed prime minister in 2019, has been under increasing pressure because he has been unable to move on from a scathing revelation about parties hosted in his Downing Street office and apartment during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

Dozens of Conservative lawmakers have expressed fear that Johnson, 57, has lost his authority to manage the United Kingdom, which is on the verge of recession, rising gasoline and food costs, and traffic havoc in the capital London due to strike action.

Several have already expressed their desire for a vote of confidence in Graham Brady, the head of the party’s 1922 Committee. Brady would then announce that the threshold had been attained if 54 Conservative members of parliament requested such a vote.

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“Tory rebels expect Sir Graham Brady to make a statement this morning announcing that there will be a vote of no confidence in Boris Johnson,” Paul Brand said on Twitter.

“Only Brady knows the exact details, but this is as certain as anyone has sounded that a vote is on.”

If the confidence vote is called, 180 Conservative legislators must vote against Johnson in order for him to be ousted from office, which some Conservatives believe will be tough to achieve. If the bill is passed, a leadership election will be held to choose his successor.

According to one former Conservative minister, it is still unclear whether the barrier has been achieved, and Brady, the only person who knows how many requests have been made, is “very tight-lipped.”

Johnson and his government have pushed MPs to move on since the release of a damning investigation into the so-called ‘partygate’ incident, which revealed alcohol-fueled gatherings at the heart of power while Britain was on coronavirus lockdowns.

“If we continually divert our direction as a Conservative Party — and by extension the government and the country — into a protracted leadership debate, we will be sending out the opposite message,” he wrote on the Conservative website.

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