"I am not going to step down and the last thing this country needs, frankly, is an election," Johnson reportedly told a parliamentary committee earlier.
The former finance minister in the Boris Johnson cabinet quit the government on Tuesday saying "the public rightly expects the government to be conducted properly, competently and seriously."
A new confidence vote in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not be brought by his lawmakers until at least next week, after the Conservative Party committee governing the rules agreed to elect a new executive before considering allowing one.