Last hours for Boris Johnson? The no-confidence motion from his own party starts
Conservative MPs can trigger a no – confidence vote against their current leader by collecting the signatures of 15% of MPs on a letter requesting the Speaker of Parliament to vote. Rebel conservative MPs believe they are close to reaching this threshold of signatures, thus triggering a vote of confidence that could send the current Prime Minister home.
It is a rebellion of the so-called backbenchers, the "belly" of the party, the rear lines that have no government posts and therefore sit, literally, behind the others in the British parliament. According to the statute of the 1922 Committee that coordinates them, 54 signatures from conservatives are needed to trigger the motion of no confidence. Obviously, a significant part of the party, the one with government responsibilities, the "Frontbenchers", reacted harshly, with a series of pressures which, according to the counterparts, reached the limit of blackmail. The result, however, was the opposite of what was expected: the threats against the Tory rebels only angered them more. So the process of collecting and sending letters signed by the deputies is proceeding silently, in a process that has not been seen in the party for some time. According to the press, on Sunday there were already 35 deputies who had sent no-confidence letters.
At present, only seven MEPs have publicly declared that they have sent the no-confidence request, so until the last moment there will be uncertainty on the issue. At the root of the deep discontent of a super – winning party up to a year ago are the latest scandals relating to alcoholic parties in Downing Street, held despite the obligations of lockdown. The latest revelations come from Dominic Cumming, Johnson's former right-hand man, who revealed that the prime minister had been warned of the illegality of parties organized during the lockdown, but voluntarily ignored it.
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