Tory rebels vow to keep trying to topple Boris Johnson - report

Tory rebels have pledged to continue trying to oust Boris Johnson from office even though he had already made it plain he would not resign after MPs voted by 211 to 148 to keep him as party leader and prime minister, according to the Guardian.

The newspaper reported that some of the 148 MPs, or 40%, who refused to support BoJo in Monday’s confidence vote, are believed to be “implacably opposed” to Johnson’s premiership.

The Guardian claimed that the rebel Conservative Party members will hold the PM’s feet to the fire as the next “Partygate” probe into whether Johnson misled parliament by denying any COVID rules were breached in Downing Street “gets under way in the coming weeks”.

Several unnamed sources were cited by the newspaper as saying that the government whipping operation to make wavering MPs back Johnson ahead of the confidence vote had been “appalling” and seemed to collapse due to Monday’s “rebellion”, which purportedly means that the PM was now on “borrowed time”.

The confidence vote came about two weeks after the publication of senior civil servant Sue Gray’s full-blown report into 16 alleged No 10 COVID rule-breaking parties held in 2020 and 2021.

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