PEOPLE are continuing to vote in the Hereford Times online vote-of-confidence ballot on Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
As things stand, our readers are strongly leaning one way on the question.
But the ballot does not close until tomorrow (June 8), so you still have time to register your vote.
Yesterday morning Hereford and South Herefordshire MP Jesse Norman become another Tory MP to reveal that he had submitted a letter to Sir Graham Brady calling for a confidence vote in Boris Johnson.
His letter came after civil servant Sue Gray's Partygate report.
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The Hereford Times had been pressing Mr Norman for his reaction to the report since it was published on May 25.
Later in the day it was announced that a vote of confidence into Mr Johnson's leadership of the Conservative party would go head.
It was held yesterday evening, and Tory MPs voted by 211 to 148 in support of the Prime Minister, but the scale of the revolt against his leadership leaves him wounded.
Mr Johnson insisted he had secured a “decisive” victory despite a vote which saw 148 of his own MPs try to oust him.
After the result was announced he told reporters in Downing Street: “I think it’s an extremely good, positive, conclusive, decisive result which enables us to move on, to unite and to focus on delivery and that is exactly what we are going to do.”
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