In the aftermath of last night’s confidence vote there is one thing that both Boris Johnson’s supporters and detractors largely agree on — at least in private.
That is, despite all the talk from Downing Street of moving on, there is no realistic chance of that happening.
As Will Walden, who worked for Johnson when he was mayor of London, put it: the vote last night was the “worst possible result short of losing”.
“The prime minister needed a decisive win last night and he didn’t get it,” he told Sky News.
“I think the problem is that I think it’s very unlikely that he’s going to be allowed to move on. And the bare fact this morning is that ultimately the prime minister is
