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this is bbc news, i m rebecca jones. the headlines at 11am. borisjohnson tells his top team he is drawing a line under questions about his leadership after winning last night s vote of confidence. thank you everybody for all your good work yesterday which was a very important day, because we are able to draw a line under the issues that our opponents want to talk about, and we are able to get on with talking about what i think people in this country want us to talk about. ican i can announce that the parliamentary party does have confidence. does have confidence. but 148 conservative mps voted against the prime minister in a significant revolt against his leadership.
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 result, a decisive result. and what it means is that as a government, we can move on and focus on the stuff that i think really matters to people. as westminster weighed up what the result might mean, the prime minister s supporters rallied round while his critics said they weren t done yet. what i think is the best thing now is that the conservative party - respects the ballot result and stays united. - parties will often lose elections because they are disunited. - look at recent history. it s parties that are disunited that end up in opposition.
against him. he is going to fight on, the only way that the tory party will remove him as after the potentially disastrous by election contest in two or three weeks time. that they tell him he has got to go or change the rules to have another vote if he doesn t go. just the same way that they got rid of theresa may. i think the countdown is on i think that they have got to, if they want to they will have to get rid of him byjuly, the end ofjuly so they can have a relaunch with a new leader at the party conference in the end of september. but he is a man who is really so stubborn for his own survival and that has been his own survival and that has been his making throughout his life. he reportedly said he would do it all again when talking about going to a party to thank staff yesterday. even though in the past year said that he
thanks. the conservative mp tobias ellwood , who chairs the defence select committee , was one of those who voted for mrjohnson to go. he said those who voted against borisjohnson needed to accept he would be staying for the time being we now need to feel included and shaping the party s future, the combat at the last couple of days was far from civil and combat at the last couple of days was farfrom civil and illustrates there is work to be done to unite there is work to be done to unite the party. jacob rees mogg describing, spinning this as a remain plot his tactic to mislead and deliberately distract it shows a worrying grasp of the concerns. we have 150 colleagues from across the party, all wings of the party about the direction, and vision of the party. we can and must be better at this. tom bower has written a biography of borisjohnson called boris johnson: the gambler . geeta guru murthy