Boris Johnson needed 180 of his 359 MPs to vote for him in order to stay on as party leader and prime minister. He got 211.
As a percentage, more MPs voted against him than Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May and John Major.
Mrs Thatcher resigned just two days after winning the first round of a vote, and Mrs May resigned six months after winning hers. Mr Major, however, went on to fight an election a few years after being challenged.
The contests Mrs Thatcher and Mr Major fought were under a different system, so they were standing directly against an alternative candidate rather than a confidence vote.
Because Mr Johnson has more MPs than Mrs May had at the time of her contest, he secured more total votes than she did from colleagues, but has 31 more MPs against him, totalling 148. If fewer than 133 MPs had voted against Mr Johnson he would have performed better than Mrs May as a percentage.
About 160 Tory MPs are on the government payroll, compared with about 200 who don’t…
