Is Borris Johnson Safe From Another No Confidence Vote?

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The current rules say that you can only hold a confidence vote every year. So theoretically, borris johnson is safe from this kind of challenge for another year. But the grandees of the conservative party have said they could change the rules in an afternoon to safeguard the interests of the party. i don't think the prime minister's, sir, can be sure that he's got another 12 months of breathing space at all.

Boris Johnson on Monday night survived a bruising no-confidence vote, and Elon Musk’s legal team has written to Twitter threatening to abort his $44bn acquisition. Plus, the FT’s Kiran Stacey reports on Big Techs’ big fight against an effort by US lawmakers to halt the practice of “self-preferencing”.

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