Boris Johnson determined to fight any no confidence vote and next election

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during Prime Minister’s Questions. (House of Commons/PA)

Boris Johnson will fight any no confidence vote launched against him by his own MPs and expects to fight the next general election, Downing Street has said, after he was urged to resign by a Tory grandee and lost one of his newest MPs to Labour.

The British prime minister was told by former minister and senior Tory MP David Davis to “in the name of God, go” in the Commons on Wednesday, soon after Bury South MP Christian Wakeford – who was elected in 2019 with just a 402 majority – staged a dramatic defection to Labour minutes before Prime Minister’s Questions began.