Good morning. Anyone watching footage of Boris Johnson talking to his cabinet yesterday would have assumed the prime minister had won a resounding victory in the no-confidence vote against him on Monday night: “We are able now to draw a line under the issues that our opponents want to talk about,” he said. Everyone banged the table.
Outside of the cabinet room, the picture seemed a little less rosy. Even as Johnson prepares for a policy blitz aimed at proving that his government is still effective and weighs calls for tax cuts from across the Conservative party, rebel MPs are drawing up plans for “vote strikes” to stop him in his tracks, the Guardian reports this morning.
