Boris Johnson Faces Vote to Kick Him Out After Mutiny in His Own Party

BREAKING: Boris Johnson’s backbench critics triggered a no-confidence vote that could see him ousted as Conservative Party leader by the end of the day and out of Downing Street by the end of the week

is a nakedly opportunistic liar, a man with no principles except for his own self-advancement. But that didn’t matter, because he was the best election-winner they had.

The committee’s chairman, Sir Graham Brady, announced Monday that threshold had been passed—and implied that it had been reached even before Johnson was As Johnson will know as well as anyone, the Tory party is notoriously ruthless when it comes to knifing leaders who are beyond their sell-by date. Johnson himself was informed of the challenge on Sunday; the vote will be held between by 8PM local time Monday , with the result handed down soon afterwards.

But the situation is more complicated than that. When Margaret Thatcher faced a leadership challenge in 1990, despite leading the Tories to three huge election victories, she won a clear majority on the first ballot but was still persuaded to resign “for the good of the party.” In the last such confidence vote, Johnson’s predecessor, Theresa May, won by 200 votes to 117, but the fact that one-third of MPs voted against her forced her to lay out a timetable for her departure five months later.

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