On June 6, the House of Commons (the lower house of the UK Parliament) refused to vote no confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson. This is reported by the BBC.
The decision to declare a vote of no confidence in Johnson was supported by 148 Conservative deputies, 211 parliamentarians have confidence in him.
This means that Johnson will remain prime minister.
The no-confidence initiative was linked to the Downing Street party scandal during the coronavirus lockdown.
The issue was brought to the UK Parliament after 15% of Conservative MPs (54 party representatives) voted in favor of it.
Context:
On December 19, 2021, the British newspaper The Guardian published a photograph of Johnson and over a dozen people drinking wine in the garden of his Downing Street residence. The picture was taken during the lockdown in May 2020, when such gatherings were banned in the country due to COVID-19. Johnson's spokesman said «Downing Street employees worked in the garden day and night», the publication wrote.
In January 2022, the Partygate scandal erupted with renewed vigor as an email leaked to the media in which Johnson aide Martin Reynolds invites 100 employees and the prime minister during the lockdown to a party. Invitation to guests offered after «a stressful period» «have a few socially distancing drinks in the garden». «Bring your own booze!» — said the letter.
April 12, Johnson revealed that he had paid fine for violating quarantine rules. Together with him, his wife and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak were fined £50 (1925 UAH), Sky News notes. In total, the police issued a total of 126 fines for 83 people as a result of the investigation of violations of quarantine rules at government buildings.
Johnson apologized for illegal parties during quarantine, but insisted that he did not intentionally violate the rules and did not mislead Parliament.