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

5.34pm BST

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.

5.27pm BST

Daily Telegraph turns on Johnson

Boris Johnson used to work for the the Daily Telegraph and, according to Dominic Cumming, he used to call it his “real boss”. But if he read it today, he will have been horrified. What the academic Tim Bale calls the “party in the media” is particularly influential in Tory politics, and today’s edition suggests the Telegraph, which used to support Johnson solidly, is close to giving up on him.

Three items stand out in today’s paper. Allison Pearson, a columnist who used to rave about him, has a column headlined: “My love affair with Boris is over.” Here’s an extract:

For months, I have been hearing from lifelong Conservatives (members and donors) who say they will never vote Tory again until that “charlatan/buffoon/Net Zero numpty/green socialist/habitual liar” (take your pick of angry epithets) is removed. The Westminster village may get excited about the threat to the PM from Tory rebels; trust me, it’s as nothing compared to the rancid disillusionment of Tory voters.

On the news pages there is a long article explaining, in considerable detail, how Johnson has repeatedly broken promises on the economy and tax.

Colleagues have dug through what Johnson said vs what he did on economic policy to date.

- Personal taxation
- National Insurance
- VAT / fuel duty
- Biz taxes
- The economy
- Cost of Gov

Lots of detail. From @Masonboyowen @tomelleryrees @gordonrayner https://t.co/YVP8efA7dg

— Ben Riley-Smith (@benrileysmith) June 8, 2022

Perhaps most significantly of all, the letters page is devoted to letters almost exclusively criticising Johnson.

One of the grimmest things the PM could read today: the entire Daily Telegraph letters page is filled by readers saying his time is up.https://t.co/8Vz09Eo5so

— Gordon Rayner (@gordonrayner) June 8, 2022

Quite a moment for Boris when his ex-employer, ⁦@Telegraph⁩, devotes this much of its Letters page to…trashing him. pic.twitter.com/7QgklXoFqD

— Becky Barrow (@beckymbarrow) June 8, 2022

Updated at 5.27pm BST