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Jun 6 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Breaking: 148 Tory MPs voted that they have no confidence in @BorisJohnson
211 voted that they do.
Very damaging result for the PM, worse than Theresa May
.@nadhimzahawi tells @SkyNews the PM won 'handsomely'. I'm not making this up.
.@BorisJohnson now just said of 41% of his MPs voting to boot him out "this is very good news". Again, I'm not making this up.
He claimed this result was better than his result in the Tory leadership of 2019. No. really.
"It’s an extremely good, positive, conclusive, decisive result.”
With the stagflation in danger of making the UK 'the sick man of Europe' once more, @BorisJohnson is now the sick man of Downing Street - infecting all those around him.

Tonight's #WaughOnPolitics is in your inbox

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Reality check: If just 32 more MPs had voted against @BorisJohnson tonight he'd no longer be Tory leader.

No wonder rebel MPs think his Comical Ali defence is laughable Image
One MP: "It’s like a lion chasing a zebra. The zebra may escape but with a gammy leg that will get infected. And he’ll be down in the end.'

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Jun 9
Only @BorisJohnson can try to shoehorn a long riff about Ukraine into a speech advertised as being about the UK housing crisis.
Johnson: "if wages continually chase the increase in prices...then we risk a wage price spiral"
Big contrast with his remarks at last Tory conf, when he talked of high wage Britain and told @BethRigby fears of inflation were 'unfounded'.
Johnson says tax rises of his govt are "an aberration" caused largely by "the fiscal meteorite of covid".
Another eg of a misleading claim cos one of his biggest tax hikes - the *permanent* health + social care levy - is about fixing social care. That has nothing to do with Covid
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Jun 6
Loud banging of desks for @BorisJohnson as he arrives for crunch 1922 Cttee meeting
If it had been tepidly quiet, critics cdve called it a.. Pretty Shitty Bang-Bang

I'm here all week.
Outside the room @SteveBakerHW "This is a very, very sad day."
Says of Johnson "He should go" cos "culture of compliance" on the law not met in No10
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Jun 6
With Boris Johnson’s face on the public’s dartboard, Tory MPs are right to fear the game is up

My latest ahead of the #ConfidenceVote
inews.co.uk/opinion/tory-m…
The PM's allies say 180 votes is all he needs. But that's a darts maximum that won't impress these guys

Having once laughed at his japes and jokes, key numbers of his 2019 voters have had enough.
We’ve gone from “The Thick Of It” to “The Sick Of It”.

inews.co.uk/opinion/tory-m…
Read 9 tweets
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Jun 6
Sir Roger Gale tells @BBCr4today 1922 Cttee rules "can be changed".
As one MP told me recently, the line that @BorisJohnson
can't be challenged again for 1 yr after winning a confidence vote is "false comfort" + the rules can be changed "in an afternoon"

inews.co.uk/opinion/boris-…
The "men in Gray suits" are confident they'll get well over the 54 letters they need.
But the Tory party's sugar rush of regicide often masks deeper problems. Just what do its MPs stand for?
Lower or higher taxes and spending than Labour?
Thatcherism or One Nation Toryism?
And ahead of the actual confidence vote itself, blackmail and other threats to MPs may well fuel further rebellion in a secret ballot.
Latest exclusive from @RichardVaughan1 + @HugoGye

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
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May 28
.@Keir_Starmer + @RachelReevesMP are expected to ditch plans to increase income tax for those earning more than £80k/yr.

My piece in @theipaper Weekend:

inews.co.uk/opinion/labour…
The move would mark a big break - not just with Labour's 2019 manifesto under @jeremycorbyn
but @Keir_Starmer's own leadership pledges too.

keirstarmer.com/plans/10-pledg…
But Starmer believes Labour's policy at the next election cannot be bound by its previous manifesto and that the economic situation has changed significantly.
(one eg: the promise to reverse Corporation Tax cuts has actually been adopted by @RishiSunak)
Read 9 tweets
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May 28
Former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland warns @BorisJohnson would have to 'reflect' on his leadership if there are heavy defeats in the Tiverton + Wakefield by-elections next month.
"Changes will have to be made."

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
Catch the full @RobertBuckland interview with me on @BBCRadio4's WeekInWestminster just after 11am.
Also on the prog:
🥳@CatherineWest1 on partygate

🧑‍💻@AlexGAThomas on the PM's ministerial code changes

🚄@FrancesOGrady @chrisloder on rail strikes/cost of living
Plus the brilliantly erudite @davidtorrance and @KateWilliamsme on the Platinum Jubilee and Parliament
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