Boris Johnson will face a vote in his leadership, a senior Tory MP announced on Monday.
Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee of backbench Conservative MPs, said he had received at least 54 letters from MPs saying they no longer had confidence in the Prime Minister.
Once the threshold of 54 is reached, it triggers a confidence vote which is set to take place between 6pm and 8pm on Monday.
Shortly after 8am, Sir Graham gave a statement outside Parliament, in which he said: “The threshold of 15 per cent of the parliamentary party seeking a vote of confidence in the leader of the Conservative Party has been exceeded.
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