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Conservative MPs have already started voting to decide whether or not Boris will continue to lead the party.

Voting ends at 8:00 pm and results will be announced one hour later.

Right now, there are two scenarios. If the majority of the deputies vote in favor (at least 180 deputies are needed), Boris will not be able to stand in the next elections. If the majority is not reachedthe prime minister remains in office and will remain immune to no-confidence motions for the next year.

Chancellor James Cleverly spoke about the meeting, adding that the speech was “little joking and serious about politics” and that Boris was “in a bad mood”.

James Cleverly said that “no one can know for sure” whether the British prime minister will overcome the no-confidence motion to be voted on this afternoon, but said he believed so.

So did Jacob Rees-Mogg, who currently holds the position of Brexit Opportunities Minister and who had already announced his support for Boris Johnson, underlining the “enormous support” for the British prime minister.

Boris Johnson has already spoken to MPs from the Conservative Party and, according to SkyNews journalists outside the room where the conversation took place, the British prime minister has promised to “rebuild trust”.

In an attempt to appeal to a favorable vote, before the vote on the motion of censure began, Boris spoke of “the biggest electoral victory in 40 years”, which was achieved during his mandate.

“The best is yet to come”, he would have said.

Conservative MPs received a letter from Boris Johnson this morning calling for “a united party.”

“We have an opportunity to put an end to weeks of media speculation,” read the letter published by CNN.

I know that the last few months have been criticized and I know that the experience has been painful for the whole party. Some of the criticism may have been fair, others not so much.”

At 4 in the afternoon a meeting began between Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party MPs. Behind closed doors, this conversation takes place two hours before the start of the vote on the motion that will dictate the future of the British prime minister in the party.

According to The Guardian, Boris entered the room without answering questions from journalists.

The day that the deputies of the Conservative Party vote on the future of Boris Johnson, he decided to keep his agenda and is fulfilling the commitments he had planned for this Monday, with the war in Ukraine as the axis.

Boris spoke with Zelensky this morning about sending long-range missiles to Ukraine. And he received the Estonian Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas, in Downing Street, to also discuss the situation of the conflict that is being experienced on Ukrainian territory.

The Opinium poll, carried out this Monday, reveals that more than half of the Conservative Party voters (59%) believe that the deputies should vote against the current prime minister, after the case known as Partygate.

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On the other hand, 28% of the voters who participated in the survey believe that Boris should remain the leader of the party.

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28% of voters think Conservative MPs should vote to keep Johnson

59% think they should vote to remove him

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— Opinion (@OpiniumResearch) June 6, 2022

At least 180 deputies are needed for the motion of censure to be approved. During the morning, several members of the Conservative Party admitted, on social networks, that they will vote against Boris Johnson.

An example of this is Angela Richardson, Guildford MP, who took to her Facebook page “the deep disappointment” with Boris Johnson. “I will vote without confidence for Boris Johnson tonight.”

Jeremy Hunt, singled out as one of the favorites to succeed Boris as leader of the Conservative Party, has also said he will vote against the current prime minister. “We are failing to provide the integrity, experience and vision necessary to unlock our country’s enormous potential,” Jeremy Hunt wrote on Twitter. And he added: “Today the decision is to change or lose. I will vote for the change.”

The Conservative Party must now decide whether it wants to change its leader. Due to the situation in Ukraine, this was not a debate that I wanted to have right now, but according to our rules we have to do it.

—Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) June 6, 2022

Buenas tardes,

The future of Boris Johnson is decided this afternoon, with a vote of no confidence from the deputies of his party. we went out a summary of what you need to know to follow the day that could change the course of the current British Prime Minister.

• The Conservative Party managed to gather 54 of the 359 deputies to launch a motion of internal censure and thus request the dismissal of Boris from the party leadership.
• The vote will take place between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. and, only after that, will the future of the current British prime minister be known: stay or go.
• Even before the vote, Boris scheduled a conference, which should take place at 4 pm.
• For the motion to pass, it is necessary that at least 180 deputies (half of the total) cast a vote in favor of Boris leaving.
• At this point, two scenarios remain. If the majority of the deputies vote in favorBoris will not be able to stand in the next elections. If the majority is not reachedthe prime minister remains in office and will remain immune to no-confidence motions for the next year.

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