How much support does Boris Johnson have among his colleagues? 💬 One Tory MP told theipaper: 'There may only be five active supporters but there will be others who are keeping low until the Privileges Committee reports'
, loses her seat it could set a precedent for Mr Johnson. By staying away from Parliament when the motion was due to be debated on Thursday, they ensured that there was not the quorum needed to make the vote binding.
Andrea Jenkyns, the MP for Morley & Outwood, who is one of Mr Johnson’s most vocal supporters, refused to endorse Mr Sunak staying as leader into the next general election. She told Sky News: “To me it depends on the polling. This is me personally and it would be political suicide to change leader again now, because we’d have to go through a general election and end up with what, 100 seats? I want to see a Conservative government elected.
She added: “There has been an orchestrated campaign not only in my own party as well, because let’s face it, most of my fellow MPs who are ‘one nation’, to the left of the party, they have got the leader that they wanted in Rishi, they never accepted Boris, they never accepted Liz Truss and they are out of sync with the party membership who are big Boris fans.
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