The confidence vote

This time last week (Wednesday 16 Jan) there was another all-important vote. The Labour Party - the official opposition - said they didn’t have confidence in the Prime Minister and her Government to carry out Brexit. “If you can’t win such an important vote, you shouldn’t be in Number 10”, they said.

Following this, everyone then voted on the Prime Minister’s ability to govern. In total, 325 MPs voted for her, compared to 306 who wanted her gone. However, she only survived the confidence challenge because Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (the DUP), who prop her up in government, voted for her. Without them, her time as PM really would have been up.

So, to round off a bloody awful couple of days, the PM addressed the public on the steps of Number 10 and said she was ready to listen. She assured us she would be holding meetings with MPs from across the political spectrum, including some of her own colleagues, to try and to find a way to make her deal work. A breakthrough perhaps? Not quite.

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