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down as party leader. it follows anger over sue gray s report detailing lockdown rule breaking in downing street. the vote was triggered after at least 54 conservative mps submitted letters of no confidence. let s cross straight to college green in westminster now and my colleague victoria derbyshire: thank you very much, it has been a pretty dramatic morning but things seem to be coming a little this afternoon. as you said borisjohnson will address his own mps privately at four o clock. in just under an hour, that will be his last opportunity before this confidence vote taking place at 6pm to try and persuade those people who are not backing him, orwho are persuade those people who are not backing him, or who are wavering, to put the tick by his name tonight in that vote. he will want them to say yes, they do have confidence in him as prime minister. i ve been asking you for your opinions, really, your views on this confidence vote tonight. voters up and down the
june 23, what if they were both lost? this is bbc news. the headlines: the prime minister is facing a vote by his mps this evening on whether to oust him as party leader. it means at least 15% of the parliamentary party equivalent to sa tory mps have submitted a letter of no confidence in his premiership. i notified the prime minister yesterday that the threshold had been reached and we agreed the timetable for a confidence vote to take place. in the next hour the prime minister will attempt to shore up support among his mps in a private meeting. several cabinet ministers have already said they ll stand behind him. is the prime minister has delivered the lowest unemployment figure since
100 metres from where i am just up the stairs along there in the committed do in parliament. mps have two hours to make up their mind and they will hear a final pitch from they will hear a final pitch from the prime minister in about an hour s time, but there are still a lot to weighing up what to do this afternoon and they will be nervous in number 10 that borisjohnson is about to find out potentially that dozens of his mps don t want him to the be the boss any more. dozens of his mps don t want him to the be the boss any more.- the be the boss any more. thank ou, nick the be the boss any more. thank you, nick eardley. you, nick eardley. a former adviser to the man who is now chief of staff to borisjohnson joins me, and tim stanley, daily telegraph columnist. thank you for joining us. what do you think, gentlemen? joining us. what do you think, centlemen? ., ., ., gentlemen? i ve no idea what will ha en. gentlemen? i ve no idea what will happen- one gentlemen? i ve no
country. i will read some of them in a moment. the first dark political correspondent helen catt can bring you all of the day s events so far. but first, our political correspondent helen catt. for weeks, the contents of sir graham brady s inbox has been a source of intense speculation. now there is confirmation. the threshold of 15% of the parliamentary party seeking a vote of confidence in the prime minister has been passed, therefore a vote of confidence will take place within the rules of the 1922 committee. that vote will take place this evening. thejubilee offered a brief breakfor number ten, but the movement towards this point has been building over many months. some tory mps were angry about revelations of lockdown breaking parties in downing street, as details kept on emerging and the prime minister himself was fined for breaking covid laws. i don t think you can be in charge of setting the rules during lockdown and then blatantly allowing people under your direct leadershi