Jesus lads, 'tis looking like BREXIT!

Blocking it cos of the wording.

Fucking hell, turning starmers open goal into a hat trick. Labour will run riot with this.
They cocked it up. Tabling a no confidence motion in someone that has resigned?? It's reported to have said "That this house has no confidence in Her Majesty’s government while the Rt Hon Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip [Boris Johnson] remains prime minister." The usual motion for no confidence would be "That this house has no confidence in Her Majesty’s government"
Why would they have changed the wording?
Similar to what Proc said earlier about the SF motion this evening, it will only be used for campaigning later because they can say the MP X voted confidence in Boris.
 
They cocked it up. Tabling a no confidence motion in someone that has resigned?? It's reported to have said "That this house has no confidence in Her Majesty’s government while the Rt Hon Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip [Boris Johnson] remains prime minister." The usual motion for no confidence would be "That this house has no confidence in Her Majesty’s government"
Why would they have changed the wording?

To force the Tories into declaring confidence in Johnson just so they can hold onto power.

I highly doubt Starmer, an excellent brief, cocked it up by accident.

Previous motions have mentioned the PM.

Regardless, the optics are awful for the Tories
 
To force the Tories into declaring confidence in Johnson just so they can hold onto power.

I highly doubt Starmer, an excellent brief, cocked it up by accident.

Previous motions have mentioned the PM.

Regardless, the optics are awful for the Tories
Surely Starmer game played this eventuality. Speaker Hoyle knows there is precedent in the 60's for this motion wording so Boris is ripping up another convention because he can. If Starmer has any cop he will put down a point of order and get the motion on the calendar for tomorrow.

Edit - he didn't resign as PM and there is an argument as to whether he resigned as tory leader - maybe to Graham Brady.
 
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