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Johnson’s authority is “draining away” as he is losing support from within the Conservatives, the shadow Northern Ireland secretary Peter Kyle has said. He told Sky News:
If [No 10] had the numbers they would have defeated the motion yesterday.
They actually put forward a wrecking amendment on the day to try and scupper the whole thing, and yet they couldn’t even, with a majority of 80. get that through. So they pulled it out last minute.
There is no question of the prime minister going. He remains confident that, when people can see the full context of what happened, it will be clear that he was straightforward, he said to the House in good faith that he believed the rules were followed.
He is looking forward to this ending. He is looking forward to drawing this to a conclusion, for it to be examined fully so that we can move on to the things people are genuinely concerned about.
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