UK PM Boris Johnson will face a vote of confidence later today

euronews.com:

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a vote of confidence from his own party later today, which could see him removed from office. 

Party official Sir Graham Brady says on Monday morning that he had received enough letters from lawmakers demanding a vote on Johnson’s leadership to trigger one. 

That happened when 54 Tory lawmakers wrote to Brady.

If Johnson loses the vote among the 359 Conservative lawmakers, he will be replaced as Conservative leader and prime minister. If he wins, he will be safe from another challenge for a year.

"The threshold of 15% of the parliamentary party seeking a vote of confidence in the prime minister has been passed," Brady told reporters outside the Houses of Parliament on Monday morning. 

The vote will take place on Monday night between 6pm and 8pm UK time with a result expected to be announced shortly afterwards. 

Brady indicated that a number of MPs had submitted their letters calling for a vote before the weekend's Platinum Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth, but had 'post-dated' them until after the events were over in order not to overshadow them. 

Boris Johnson was informed on Sunday that the threshold had been reached to call for a vote, but Brady wouldn't be drawn on exactly how many of those 359 Conservative MPs had submitted letters to the powerful 1922 Committee that he chairs, nor how Johnson reacted when he was told about the confidence vote. 

Boris Johnson has faced a slew of ethics scandals in recent months, most notably over rule-breaking parties which were held in government buildings during COVID lockdowns. 

He made history by being the first sitting prime minister found to have broken the law, when he was fined by police for attending a party during lockdown. 

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