Johnson received a vote of no confidence from lawmakers Monday, but 148 of them – 41 percent of the total – refused to support him. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Under a rarely-used rule of the Tory constitution, it takes just 65 local party presidents to convene an Extraordinary General Assembly (EGM) of the National Conservative Assembly (NCC), an 800-member body representing the class. The dark rule was first discovered by Brexit supporters, including Jacob Rees-Mogg, who planned to overthrow Theresa May in 2019 over her failure to pass Brexit legislation by a suspended parliament. Once a meeting is called, a motion of censure will be made against Johnson. Although the result is not binding, its symbolic power would be substantial, rebel lawmakers believe, and it could offer ministers and even cabinet ministers a reason to stage a wave of resignations. May survived the vote of confidence of her MPs in December 2018 and according to the rules of the 1922 committee could not be challenged again for another year.
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But grassroots activists successfully launched an emergency meeting of the NCC in June 2019. Their report at the time stated “we no longer believe Ms. May is the right person to continue as Prime Minister” and planned to use their meeting. to pass a sentence this result. Eventually, the meeting never took place, because May succumbed to pressure to resign just a few weeks earlier. Aside from the prospect of a new debate by lawmakers, the threat of discrediting such a conviction issued by the “voluntary” wing of the Tories’s party was enough to force its hand. The National Assembly is made up of conservative union presidents from more than 600 constituencies. It also has executives from “regions and areas” as well as 42 representatives from the Young Conservatives and the Conservative Women’s Organization “We only need less than half of the presidents of the 148 constituency to write to elicit a new vote of confidence,” said one of the rebel lawmakers. “This is the next real impetus.” One supporter said: “Shortly before I voted on Monday, the president of my constituency said to me, ‘I hope you will vote for him.’ “He was the one who organized the Brexit vote in my area in 2016. And there are others like him.” Pushing from the bottom is part of a two-pronged strategy by rebel MPs to increase pressure on Johnson. The Partygate inquiry by the Commons Preferences Committee will receive data and then report in the autumn. If it finds that the Prime Minister has deliberately misled Parliament on the Lockdown Act, which violates No. 10, the Commons as a whole could pass a motion of censure and Tory MPs will move quickly to change their rules to allow a second vote of confidence from Members.
