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New Delhi, June 6: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a no-confidence vote in his leadership of the Conservative Party, the chair of the party’s backbench committee revealed on Monday, only days after new revelations of the partygate scandal surfaced.
Sir Graham Brady, who is in charge of gathering the 1922 Committee’s letters of no-confidence, stated the threshold of 15% of the Tory parliamentary party, or 54 MPs, seeking such a vote had been met, and the vote will take place on Monday evening in the House of Commons.
“The threshold of 15 per cent of the parliamentary party seeking a vote of confidence in the leader of the Conservative Party has been exceeded,” said Brady in a statement.
Analysts predict that Johnson, 57, will win such a vote, but it will be a setback for his leadership.
More than 40 Conservative MPs have publicly called for Johnson’s resignation as party leader over the COVID law-breaking parties scandal – dubbed partygate – that occurred during his premiership at Downing Street, an issue that has remained in the spotlight since top civil servant Sue Gray’s damning report on leadership failures.
The report, which was released following a Scotland Yard investigation that resulted in Johnson and his wife Carrie being fined for a lockdown-breaching birthday party in the Cabinet Room of Downing Street in June 2020, exposed parties and misconduct within government offices during the coronavirus lockdowns of 2020-2021.
Johnson came to Parliament to repeat an earlier apology, saying he accepted full responsibility for what happened while he was in charge. Apart from the opposition, though, there have been mounting calls for him to resign.
