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LONDON , Jun 8 (AP) \u2014 A defiant British Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted Wednesday that he is getting on with his job, as he faced Parliament for the first time since 41% of his own party\u2019s lawmakers called for him to quit.<\/p>\n
Johnson has been left teetering after surviving a no-confidence vote by Conservative Party legislators by a narrower-than-expected margin. A total of 148 of the 359 Tory lawmakers voted against him in Monday\u2019s ballot.<\/p>\n
Johnson says he plans to move on and focus on bread-and-butter issues such as clearing national health care backlogs, tackling crime, easing a cost-of-living crisis and creating high-skilled jobs in a country that has left the European Union.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs for jobs, I\u2019m going to get on with mine,\u201d he told lawmakers during the weekly Prime Minister\u2019s Questions session in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n
But Johnson\u2019s party opponents say they have not given up on pushing him out. They fear that Johnson, his reputation tarnished by revelations of boozy government parties that breached COVID-19 regulations, will doom the party to defeat in the next national election, which is due to be held by 2024.<\/p>\n
Still, Conservative lawmakers dutifully cheered Johnson during a noisy Prime Minister\u2019s Questions, while opponents relished the prime minister\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n
Opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said any Conservatives inclined to give Johnson another chance would be disappointed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey want him to change \u2014 but he can\u2019t,\u201d Starmer said.<\/p>\n
Scottish National Party leader Ian Blackford called Johnson \u201ca lame duck prime minister presiding over a divided party in a disunited kingdom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blackford compared Johnson to comedy troupe Monty Python\u2019s character the Black Knight, who has his limbs lopped off in battle, all the while proclaiming \u201cIt\u2019s only a flesh wound!\u201d<\/p>\n
And Labour lawmaker Angela Eagle asked: \u201cIf 148 of his own backbenchers don\u2019t trust him, why on Earth should the country?\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson replied that \u201cin a long political career so far, I have of course picked up political opponents all over the place.\u201d<\/p>\n
But he said \u201cabsolutely nothing and no one \u2026 is going to stop us getting on and delivering for the British people.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Conservative Party rules bar another no-confidence vote for 12 months, those rules can be changed by a handful of lawmakers who run a key Conservative committee. Johnson also faces a parliamentary ethics probe that could conclude he deliberately misled Parliament over \u201cpartygate\u201d \u2014 which is traditionally a resigning offense.<\/p>\n
With opinion polls giving Labour a lead nationally, Johnson will face more pressure if the Conservatives lose special elections later this month for two parliamentary districts where incumbent Tory lawmakers were forced out by sex scandals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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