Boris Johnson has clung on to power for at least another year after Tory rebels failed in their bid to oust the embattled Prime Minister.
In a crunch confidence vote this evening, Conservative MPs backed Mr Johnson by 211 to 148 votes. Despite fairing worse than Theresa May in her 2018 confidence vote, allies of the Prime Minister said he now intended to continue in office and "focus on the key issues facing both the UK and the world".
The vote came after a last ditch plea by Mr Johnson to keep his job, with backbenchers crammed in a small House of Commons room to hear the Prime Minister's pitch.
