MPs have voted on whether they think Boris Johnson should continue to be Prime Minister after Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee, confirmed in a statement this morning that he had received the 54 letters from Conservative MPs needed to trigger a vote on the PM's future.
In order to survive the vote, Mr Johnson required a majority – the backing of 180 Tories – which makes him immune from another vote for a year. However, if he lost, a leadership contest would have been triggered and he would be forced to resign from his position.
The PM won the vote by 211 to 148 - a narrow margin, enough to clinch victory but still a significant number of MPs voting against him. There have been numerous occasions in history when Prime Ministers have been forced to step down after losing a vote.
