Boris Johnson news – live: Defiant PM told to resign in first PMQs since confidence vote - The Independent

1. Boris Johnson news – live: Defiant PM told to resign in first PMQs since confidence vote 
2. Boris Johnson says ‘nothing and no one’ will stop him carrying on as prime minister in wake of no-confidence vote – live  The Guardian
3. With Hannibal Johnson safe in his job for now, the Tory party can carry on devouring itself  The Guardian
4. Editorial: The PM will 'move on' – to the next chapter in his leadership crisis  The Independent

Boris Johnson news – live: Defiant PM told to resign in first PMQs since confidence vote  

The IndependentMore than half of Britons think the Conservative party made the wrong decision in backing Boris Johnson’s premiership in the confidence vote earlier this week, a poll has found.Mr Johnson described his victory as “decisive”, despite winning the ballot by 211 votes to 148.But critics say the prime minister has found himself in the eye of a revolt against his positon, the scale of which far surpassed the expectations of his allies - failing to put to bed questions over his leadership.On Friday, an Ipsos poll found that 51 per cent of Britons think MPs slipped up in retaining the prime minister, a number which includes one in four 2019 Conservative voters.And, overall, 36 per cent said they made the right decision.Earlier, the government’s top social mobility chief dubbed Mr Johnson “not a good role model” for children.Katherine Birbalsingh, chair of the Social Mobility Commission, suggested that, even though she liked the prime minister, his personal life made her “raise an eyebrow”, and questioned whether he looked professional enough.Key points

Poll finds 51 per cent of voters disagree with Boris Johnson staying in post

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• Lord Frost warns PM has until autumn to save himself from being ousted

Tory MPs urge PM to match European fuel tax cuts

Tax cuts, and fast, or you're out  The Times

1. Tax appeal
How can Boris Johnson save his skin? This morning the cabinet names its price: tax cuts, and fast.

Nothing soothes the tempers of the Tory faithful like the promise of lower taxes, as the prime minister knows. That’s why he promised cabinet yesterday and MPs on Monday – in the vaguest possible terms – to deliver them once the economy returns to sunnier climes.

And that’s why Liz Truss, in her first broadcast round since the confidence ballot, yesterday said the government should turn its attention to driving up growth and cutting taxes. Ditto Penny Mordaunt in this morning’s Telegraph.

Will Johnson seize the mantle sooner rather than later? The Times reveals that cabinet ministers doubt he or his government can

Boris Johnson says ‘nothing and no one’ will stop him carrying on as prime minister in wake of no-confidence vote – live  The Guardian

Afternoon summary

• Boris Johnson has said “absolutely nothing and no one” will stop him continuing in office, during his first prime minister’s questions since an unconvincing victory in a confidence vote among Tory MPs.
• Sajid Javid has said he would like to see the government “do more on tax cuts”, adding to the pressure on Johnson from senior Conservatives after the damaging revolt over his leadership.
• More talks will be held this week between unions and rail industry leaders in an attempt to avoid a week of national strikes that will shut down much of Britain’s rail network in late June.
• YouGov suppressed polling in last few weeks of the 2017 election campaign because it was too positive about Labour, a senior former employee has said.
• Boris Johnson has been warned by his Irish counterpart that ditching the post-Brexit deal on Northern Ireland would be a “historic low point”, citing the outbreak of war in Ukraine as a reason why international law must be respected.
• Priti Patel’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda as soon as next week is facing a legal challenge under emergency proceedings launched in the high court on Wednesday.
• The Scottish government has been urged to “come clean once and for all” about whether it has the power to legislate for a second independence referendum at Holyrood.
• Alok Sharma, the UK cabinet minister who led last year’s Cop26 climate summit, is in the running to be the UN’s global climate chief, at a crucial time for international action on greenhouse gas emissions.

With Hannibal Johnson safe in his job for now, the Tory party can carry on devouring itself  The Guardian

Ironically, the Conservative party seems to have been unable to engineer a leaving do for Boris Johnson. Last night’s unsuccessful leaderplasty leaves the government hideously disfigured but staggering on; and the prime minister the subject of headlines like “let me get on with the job”. Which, considering the circumstances that brought us here, is a little like Fred West pleading to be allowed to get on with finishing someone’s loft extension. The not-getting-on-with-the-job has been a significant part of the problem. (Please don’t think that’s today’s only serial killer reference: we shall be dealing later in the column with the one made in the prime minister’s defence by Tory MP Adam Holloway, during a particularly eye-catching Newsnight appearance.)

For now, a recap. Scores on the doors were 148 Conservative MPs voting no-confidence, with 211 opting to clean up after Big Dog yet again. For them, this is not rock bottom. Johnson’s supporters have dived down to the bottom of their equivalent of Trainspotting’s worst toilet in Scotland, and fished out the suppository. Or to put it a different way that still underscores the dependency, 211 of them chose last night to order another gram of Boris Johnson, rather than begin the painful yet ultimately unavoidable process of coming down from what can surely no longer be described as a high.

Editorial: The PM will 'move on' – to the next chapter in his leadership crisis  The Independent

ow long can he last? Though Boris Johnson has his implacable enemies and kamikaze devotees among his MPs, the emerging consensus seems to be that he is probably safe until the party conference in the autumn, though that jamboree would not seem to be an obvious setting for a coup.

For his own part, the prime minister told his cabinet during a brief photo call that he thinks he can now “draw a line” under questions about his leadership. That is as deluded as his remarkable statement in the post-vote television interview that he had scored an “extremely good” result. He looked dazed, as if suffering from concussion after being mugged by his backbenchers. At any rate, he will be lucky to survive until the autumn.

There are a number of critical challenges ahead of him in the coming weeks. The two by-elections, in Wakefield and in Tiverton and Honiton, are especially dangerous for Mr Johnson. There seems every chance that he will lose at least one (Wakefield), quite possibly both – and will see historic swings away from the Conservatives in both seats.

An additional peril facing Tory MPs in marginal seats will also emerge – the return of the kind of tactical voting among opposition parties that inflicted such devastating damage to Conservative fortunes in the general elections of 1997 and 2001. For the first time in two decades, the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens are all relatively strong and their supporters so appalled by Johnson that they will “lend” their vote in an effort to get rid of him. But the main conclusion that will be drawn from the results will be the obvious one: that Mr Johnson is repellent to all kinds of voters, including Leave voters and otherwise loyal Conservatives.

Depending on the scale of the swings, the by-elections are likely to provoke panic, as they have so often for all parties in the past. The politicians like to dismiss them as mid-term blues, and it is true that they can be a poor guide to a subsequent general election, as in the Thatcher era – but by no means always. Dramatic by-election losses presaged the end of Conservative rule in 1997, 1974 and 1964. Losing seats on a swing of 10 or 20 per cent is not a good omen. On the contrary, for new and younger MPs looking to embark on a long ministerial career or simply hang on to their jobs, Mr Johnson will appear to be a clear and present danger to their aspirations, and the instinct for self-preservation is bound to kick in.

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