Assessing the damage: can Boris Johnson recover from narrow confidence vote win?

Prime minister tries to move on from ‘historic’ rebellion as critic warns of Tory civil war

Boris Johnson
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Boris Johnson is attempting to reset his premiership and prove he is still able to govern following a bruising confidence vote in which more than 40% of his own MPs indicated he no longer had their support.

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