By PM attempts to ‘draw a line’ following confidence vote
Boris Johnson had his cabinet meeting this morning, as his government tried to make a fresh start following last night’s confidence vote.
The PM said the “fundamental Conservative instinct” was to let people decide how to spend their own money, and “delivering tax cuts” would contribute to “Considerable growth in employment and economic progress”
The PM also said over the coming weeks, he would ask the cabinet to produce plans to cut costs and reform government operations
Johnson told colleagues to “make sure that you’re thinking the whole time about cutting the costs of government, about cutting the costs that business has to face and of course cutting the costs that everybody else faces, families up and down the country”
“We are able now to draw a line under the issues that our opponents want to talk about” the PM added claiming a transparent and ‘clear’ victory over last night’s vote.
The prime minister said the government would focus on “levelling up” as well as supporting people through the “aftershocks of Covid”
The PM also wants the Government to concentrate on the effectiveness of services, which would include delayed passports and driving licenses, and post-pandemic hospital waiting lists.
Last night it was announced that Boris Johnson will be holding onto his seat as prime minister for a bit longer as the majority of his party voted in favour of him staying.
But, with a majority of just 41 MPs, can the prime minister hold out for much longer?
Out of the 359 MPs that voted, 211 voted for their leader, while 148 voted against.
Although the threshold of 180 votes against the MP wasn’t hit, the number of rebels was much higher than predicted.
Mr. Johnson may have won the confidence of 59% of his MPs but the scale of the rebellion has left him politically damaged.
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