Some 148 Conservative MPs out of 359 voted against Boris Johnson staying in office. Sky News political editor Beth Rigby described the result as 'deeply uncomfortable' for the prime minister
Mr Johnson has suffered a larger rebellion than Mrs May did - with 148 votes against him and a majority of just 63.
She only had the support of 63% of Conservative MPs, but with less than that, at 59%, people could argue that Mr Johnson should do as she did in the months that followed her vote and resign."You only need 40 MPs to consistently vote against him for him to lose his majority and there you have 148," she said.
"And you have to ask after that if we're going to see a period where Boris Johnson is in Downing Street but he's not really in power and he does not have the majority over his party."Sir Graham Brady announces the PM resultSky News deputy political editor Sam Coates added that anything between 100 and 179 votes against him is a"wounding rebellion" for the PM.
"We're at the worse end of results," he said."Loyalists are privately acknowledging that numbers are higher than they wanted to see." He says that although Mr Johnson will"seek to downplay the result" and try to distract with announcements on issues such as the Northern Ireland protocol or the reorganising of the civil service, he is"not in the clear".
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