How does a no-confidence vote work?

Johnson will face a decision on his leadership later today

Boris Johnson
Any confidence vote over Boris Johnson's leadership is likely to wait until after the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations
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Conservative MPs will vote on whether to allow Boris Johnson to continue as their leader after at least 54 letters of no confidence were sent to 1922 Committee chair, Graham Brady.

Brady published a statement this morning announcing that the threshold of 15% of the parliamentary party seeking a vote of confidence in Johnson had been “exceeded”, and that a poll will take place this evening from 6-8pm. A result will then be announced “shortly thereafter” said Brady.

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.