Ballot closes as UK’s Johnson faces confidence vote

Johnson departs 10 Downing Street in London [File: Andy Rain/EPA]

The politicians of the UK’s governing Conservative Party have taken part in a vote of confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson that could remove him as Britain’s leader as well as the head of the Conservative Party.

Party official Graham Brady said early on Monday he had received enough letters from Members of Parliament demanding a vote on Johnson’s leadership to trigger one. That happens if 54 Tory politicians – 15 percent of the party’s group in the House of Commons – write to Brady.