Keir Starmer has said that Conservative MPs 'ignored the British public' by expressing confidence in Boris Johnson.  
Johnson won the no-confidence vote, with 211 Conservative MPs backing him and 148 voting against. 
'Conservative MPs made their choice tonight – they have ignored the British public and hitched themselves and their party to Boris Johnson,' the Labour leader said.
Despite winning, Johnson has lost the support of a larger proportion of the parliamentary party than Theresa May did when she faced a no-confidence vote in 2018. Within eight months of that result, May was out