johnson can face a confidence vote. they can be tweaked by the 1922 committee, that all powerful backbench committee, to hold another confidence vote in borisjohnson if there was enough pressure from his backbenchers. a lot of pressure from the cabinet, is there any indication that any of them will move? will they worry about being outgunned by jeremy hunt, who is clearly laid a stake in the leadership race given his actions yesterday. they might think therejeremy hunt is a front runner to replace borisjohnson if it comes to that, of course. a big moment for borisjohnson as last night conservative mps voted on whether to back him or sack him as their leader. nobody expected the prime minister to lose, but the result when it came was not the convincing win he needed. the vote in favour of having confidence in borisjohnson as leader was 211 votes,
years ago this very week, now has the support of less than 60% of his own mps. we ll be bringing you reaction throughout this morning s programme. were going to hearfrom people inside and outside the conservative party, and also from you, your thoughts. first, our political correspondentjonathan blake looks back at a dramatic evening in westminster. a big moment for borisjohnson as last night conservative mps voted on whether to back him or sack him as their leader. nobody expected the prime minister to lose, but the result when it came was not the convincing win he needed. the vote in favour of having confidence in borisjohnson as leader was 211 votes, and the vote against was 148 votes. and therefore i can announce that the parliamentary party does have confidence. cheering. more than 40% of his own members of parliament had voted against him. his supporters cheered the victory, though, and for the prime minister, a win was a win. i think it s a convincing