Boris Johnson will be dumped by Conservatives, claims senior Tory MP

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Boris Johnson being dumped as Conservative leader is now a question of “when, not if”, according to senior Tory MP.Tobias Ellwood told his party colleague to “stop drinking the Kool Aid” and prepare to jettison Johnson after many of them refused to go through the division lobby in support of the Prime Minister on Thursday.Johnson, who is on a trade visit to India, had to abandon plans to kick out a Labour vote on referring him to a parliamentary inquiry over misleading the Commons after party managers faced a mutiny.

In a humiliating U-turn the government ditched a plan to kick a decision on the inquiry into the long grass, leaving Johnson to try and explain that was his intention all along.With reports that up to six government Ministers had refused to toe the party line Elwood, who chairs the Commons defence select committee, said his Conservative MPs had to realise that the PM was no longer a vote-winning asset.He said: “All MPs are deeply troubled by what the party is now going through and what to do next, given the huge credit you must give to Boris Johnson in bringing the party so far.“But we must stop drinking the Kool-Aid that’s encouraging us to think this is all going to disappear and that we can all move on.”Ellwood said: “I predicted a steady trickle of letters of no confidence, of resignations and that is now happening.“I fear it’s now when, not if, a vote of confidence takes place, as sadly the absence of discipline, of focus, of leadership in Number 10, has led to this breach of trust with the British people and it’s causing long-term damage to the party’s brand.”But with Johnson vowing to lead the party into the next general election Northern Irish Secretary Conor Burns said there was “no question of the