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A no-confidence vote has the power to reduce a prime minister to tears in public. Boris Johnson now faces the judgement of his own MPs and is not the first to be in this position

Boris Johnson faced the greatest threat to his premiership yet after the necessary 54 Tory MPs triggered the parliamentary party’s vote of no confidence on Monday, after the long-simmering Partygate scandal saw Platinum Jubilee crowds jeer him over the weekend. Analysts did expect him to win the necessary majority of…

The most recent to face a confidence vote was Theresa May in 2018

PM needs support of 180 MPs to survive as leader

Ronald Reagan became the first US president to address both houses of parliament on June 8 1982. His Westminster speech created a stir at the time. It marked the start of the evolution of the Reagan doctrine, his approach to foreign affairs that sought to support freedom and roll back…

There have been a number of votes faced by Conservative Party leaders over the last few decades.

Polls show he’s increasingly reviled and his party’s attempts to counterattack are chaotic. The end feels nigh, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

During Queen’s reign, country has tended to move quickly from national gloom to premature belief that it has finally ‘cracked it’

She has appeared in plays, novels, paintings – even love songs. From Andy Warhol to Alan Bennett, artists, writers and musicians have changed our picture of the Queen we think we know

As an American who became a British citizen, I can see the monarchy is an anachronism, but without it I would be living in an unrecognisable place

A selection of this newspaper’s writing about the monarch since she became queen when, as the fashion editor wrote, ‘surprise is an undesired quality’