Rebel Tories plan ‘vote strikes’ to capitalise on PM’s weakened position

Boris Johnson at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday after narrowly surviving a no-confidence vote the night before. Photograph: Leon Neal/PA

Rebel Conservative MPs are drawing up plans for “vote strikes” to paralyse law-making and capitalise on the dramatic Boris Johnson no-confidence vote.

Some of the 148 MPs who voted to oust the prime minister on Monday said they would try to stymie his government’s legislative agenda, as happened at the end of the Theresa May era, by abstaining on key laws.