Theresa May wins vote of confidence by 200 to 117

Theresa May has survived a vote of confidence in her leadership. Graham Brady, the chairman of the Tory backbench committee, announced the result to cheers from Tory MPs gathered in Parliament. 200 Tory MPs backed the Prime Minister in the vote. But 117 of her own MPs – more than a third of the party – voted against Theresa May. On the steps of Downing Street, May said she had listened to those within the Tory party who had voted against her. She said she would seek ‘legal and political assurances that will assuage concerns about the backstop’ in her Brexit deal. But Jacob Rees-Mogg, one of the Prime Minister’s leading critics, said that the result was a bad one for May and called on her to quit.