Commentary
On the face of it, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson surviving a no-confidence vote with a 63-vote majority is a good result. Out of a total of 359 Conservative MPs, 211 voted for Johnson, while 148 voted to oust him.
The result was not quite as good as the 83-vote, 63 percent majority that Theresa May secured in her no-confidence vote in 2018, but then she hadn’t been caught breaking her own laws.
When I asked Nigel Farage, the real motivating force behind Brexit and close ally of Donald Trump, what he thought of the outcome, he told me: “The result was really bad for Johnson and he will now lead a party of increasing indiscipline and chaos. The Conservative brand is tarnished and they are heading for electoral disaster.”…