Boris Johnson claims he has won a 'convincing result' after clinging onto power amid mass Tory rebellion

Boris Johnson has described a mass Tory revolt over his leadership as "a very good result for politics and the country".

The Prime Minister's comments came after a crunch confidence vote this evening which saw Conservative MPs back Mr Johnson by 211 to 148 votes. Every single Conservative MP took part in the vote on Monday, with the results meaning that Johnson received 58.8 per cent support of the party, with 41.2 per cent currently being against his current leadership.

It was a result worse than Theresa May received in her 2018 confidence vote, but Mr Johnson was still in an upbeat mood.

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He said: "I think this is a very good result for politics and for the country, it's a convincing result, a decisive result and what it means is that as a Government we can move on and focus on the stuff that I think really matters to people.

"We now need to come together as a Government, as a party, and that is exactly what we can now do."

Asked how it compared to past confidence votes in Conservative prime ministers, he added: “I have got a far bigger mandate from my own parliamentary colleagues than I had in 2019.”

He ruled out a snap election in order to gain a new mandate from the public, insisting he was focused on the public’s priorities.

The Prime Minister said: “I see no point in focusing on anything else and I’m certainly not interested in snap elections. What I’m interested in is delivering right now for the people of this country.”

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But Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says Mr Johnson is 'unfit' to be Prime Minister and claimed Conservative MPs have failed to “show