Boris Johnson has insisted questions over his leadership have been “settled” as one of his biggest critics said he should not be challenged within the net year.
Speaking at the G7 summit in Bavaria the Prime Minister said he was not concerned about Westminster plotting while he is out of the UK
He told reporters at the summit in Germany : “No. We settled that a couple of weeks ago.”
There have been suggested that the the rules of the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs could be changed in order to allow another vote of confidence in Johnson within the next year.
According to The Daily Telegraph, Johnson has been hit by a fresh wave of no-confidence letters after revealing his ambition to rule for three terms despite the catastrophic loss of two by-elections last week.
There was some cheer for Johnson when David Davis, the former Brexit secretary who has already called for Johnson to quit, declared that he was opposed to the rules being changed.
He said the prospect of constant challenges to a Prime Minister would paralyse the government.
Davis said: “Whether it’s Boris or anybody else, dealing with stagflation is going [to require] some really difficult decisions. Do you want a leader, whoever it is, looking over his shoulder every month at this tax increase or whatever?
“So no, I don’t want the rules changed. I don’t think they will change either.”
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