PM says his removal is the one route to a Labour victory, and party must ‘refuse to dance to tune of the media’
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Boris Johnson has made a last-ditch plea for support in a confidence vote on Monday evening, telling his MPs that to unseat him would be to “dance to the tune of the media” and plunge the Conservatives into a civil war.
Pledging to lead the party into another election, the prime minister told a meeting of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tories that his removal was the one route to a Labour election victory.
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