Sir Graham Brady says: "I can announce that the parliamentary party does have confidence in the prime minister."

Boris Johnson wins a confidence vote of Tory MPs by 211 to 148.

It means he will stay in his job as prime minister.

The result was announced by chairman of the 1922 Committee Sir Graham Brady.

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We're expecting Sir Graham Brady to announce the result of the confidence vote any moment now.

The TV camera in Committee Room 14 of the House of Commons has been switched on - and we'll bring you the result as soon as we have it.

You can also watch the announcement live via the link at the top of this page.

The result of the ballot is due at 21:00 BST.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be informed of the result shortly before it is announced.

The whole process is being overseen by Sir Graham Brady, who chairs the 1922 Committee and who told the prime minister yesterday that he would face this vote.

We'll bring you the result and analysis here, and you can also watch the announcement live on the BBC News Channel by clicking on the 'play' button at the top of this page.

The latest publicly declared support and opposition for Boris Johnson among Conservative MPs stands as follows, according to the BBCs political research unit:

Confidence in Johnson to remain as PM: 155

No confidence: 43

Other Conservative MPs have not stated their position on the prime minister's future.

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Sir Roger Gale, a long-standing critic of the prime minister, said he voted "no confidence" in Boris Johnson for an "accumulation of factors".

Sir Roger said he had questioned the prime minister's judgment ever since Johnson defended his then-aide Dominic Cummings for driving to Barnard Castle in County Durham during the Covid lockdown.

"I think all the events in between have just strengthened my view that we need another prime minister," he told Sky News.

Gale also said the party was "spoilt for choice" for an alternative leader, suggesting that Dominic Raab, Liz Truss, Ben Wallace, Penny Mordaunt and Tom Tugendhat might put themselves forward.

"This is something that the prime minister has brought on himself," he added.

"Brexit divided the party - that is absolutely true. It's curious the party is now divided, not over policy, but over the character of the prime minister. That's quite extraordinary."

BBC Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt says supporters of Boris Johnson are looking downbeat, and there's intense anger, too.

Watt reports that one ally of the PM said his colleagues were "lying snakes" while another strong supporter of Johnson said he could "throttle" those MPs who "want to hand our country to a coalition of Labour, the SNP and the Liberal Democrats".

Another Tory from a former "Red Wall" seat - Mansfield's Ben Bradley - has been asked what it would mean if more than 100 MPs have voted for the PM to go.

He says he would be “surprised and disappointed if that was the case”, adding many MPs who won their seats in 2019 have Johnson to thank.

Bradley says Johnson is a “huge personality who engaged with people in that election in places where we haven’t been able to do that”.

He says those seats have been “at the forefront of the agenda policy-wise for the prime minister" adding "that agenda, the levelling-up comes from him”.

Dehenna Davison, elected in 2019 for Bishop Auckland in County Durham - one of the so-called Red Wall seats the Conservatives took from Labour - says she has voted against Boris Johnson.

"This is not a decision I took lightly. I listened carefully to all sides, and particularly to the many constituents who contacted me sharing their thoughts and experiences," she wrote on social media.

"Weighing it all up, I voted against the prime minister tonight."

A one-vote victory is enough to continue in office - PM supporterspublished at 20:09 British Summer Time 6 June 2022

20:09 BST 6 June 2022

Iain Watson
Political correspondent

Boris Johnson’s supporters say that a one-vote margin of victory will be enough for him to continue in office. However, a number of his critics say if that happens, they believe some of his ministers will tell him openly to go.

But other scenarios would make his future – and that of his party – less clear cut.

Assuming all MPs vote, if the rebels cannot get the support of 100 Conservatives then the PM’s supporters will argue that he has won decisively, and it is time to move on.

Some of his critics believe this scenario will mean that, in due course, voters rather than MPs will decide his future - and many of them fear their verdict.

If – as many rebels anticipate – around a third of the parliamentary party, 120-130 MPs, vote against the PM they believe he could be fatally wounded. Certainly it would be symbolically embarrassing for Johnson if 133 MPs vote against him.

That would mean a smaller percentage of MPs backed him than supported Theresa May in her confidence vote in 2018 – and she was gone six months later.

With the possibility of a brace of by-election defeats in a few weeks, and a difficult cross-party probe into whether he misled Parliament, they think his position would become unsustainable.

If the rebels amass the support of 150 MPs that will mean that its highly likely some government ministers have privately abandoned the PM, and his tenure in No 10 may begin to look decidedly less secure – with critics likely to be emboldened not silenced.

If 180 MPs say they have no confidence in the PM – which his backers say they are confident won’t happen – there will be a leadership contest.

Voting has now finished in the Conservatives' confidence ballot on Boris Johnson's leadership.

For the past two hours Tory MPs have been lining up to cast their vote on whether they want the PM to continue in his post.

The 1922 Committee of backbench Conservatives will now count the votes and we expect to hear from chairman Sir Graham Brady with the result at 21:00 BST tonight

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Former Conservative cabinet minister David Gauke has been looking ahead to the result of tonight's confidence vote by Tory MPs.

He tells the BBC if more than 100 vote against him it’s bad news for Boris Johnson, adding “I think it will be a little more than 100”.

“If it gets to 133, comparing it with [former prime minister] Theresa May, then that’s a very uncomfortable result for him," he adds.

May won a vote of confidence in her leadership in December 2018, only to be ousted around six months later.

Boris Johnson - hoping his MPs will back his leadership in the vote taking place right now - will lay out the "plan for growth" next week along with Chancellor Rishi Sunak, a senior Conservative source says.

While the prime minister did not promise MPs a specific tax cut when he spoke to the 1922 Committee earlier this afternoon, the source said, there is "a very big speech" on the economy on the way.

Johnson also told MPs he plans to make an announcement on housing later this week, "setting out plans to kindle that dream of home ownership".

John Lamont - the Scottish Conservative MP who resigned as a ministerial aide this evening - has been explaining why he's come to the decision to vote against Boris Johnson.

"I'm clear that we need a new direction, a new leader, and a new style of government," he tells the BBC.

He said that he had found some of the events that took place in Downing Street particularly shocking and sickening, and that many of his constituents in the Borders felt the same.

Lamont refused to speculate about this evening's result, but said "clearly a lot of MPs are very unhappy,"

David Mundell, the Scottish Conservatives MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale - and a former Scotland secretary - has announced he voted against Boris Johnson continuing as prime minister.

In a tweet,, external Mundell said his vote came after "a difficult couple of years" and he had voted for "a fresh start and new leadership".

Another Scottish Tory MP has also announced he has made "the extremely tough decision" to vote against the prime minister.

Andrew Bowie said it was the "only choice for the good of the country".

David Wallace Lockhart
BBC political correspondent

The PM has arrived to vote with Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Johnson's chief of staff Steve Barclay.

Entering the voting room, he was asked “are you going to vote for yourself?” And “for or against”?

There was no answer from the PM, though we can safely assume which way he’ll be voting.

There's now just under an hour to go for Conservative MPs to take part in the vote of confidence in Boris Johnson's leadership. Here's what's happening:

• Tory MPs are voting on whether they want Johnson to continue as party leader and prime minister
• Voting closes at 20:00 BST and the result will be announced at 21:00 by the chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservatives, Sir Graham Brady
• Johnson needs to secure the backing of 180 of the 359 Conservative MPs in the secret ballot to stay on
• Ahead of the vote the PM urged MPs to give him their support, promising future tax cuts and vowing to lead them to "victory again"

Scottish Conservative MP John Lamont has resigned as a ministerial aide to Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.

The MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk ran Jeremy Hunt's leadership campaign in Scotland in 2019.

In a statement, Lamont said he was voting against the prime minister in the confidence vote.

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As MPs cast their ballots in the confidence vote - what are people in Sheffield thinking about the leadership of the prime minister?

MPs are standing outside the room in Parliament where they will go in to vote on the future of their party's leader.

Those queueing for the start of voting at 18:00 BST included Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries.

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab reportedly skipped the queue and went straight in to vote.

At the start of voting, 30 MPs were waiting to cast their vote.

MPs have until 20:00 tonight to vote.

141 MPs have publicly said they will back Boris Johnson.

Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Theresa May turned to up to vote in a formal evening dress.