Government Revolt underway in UK, 2 General Elections expected next year

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Supporters of Boris Johnson are plotting to install him as Tory leader by mounting a Commons ambush after next year’s General Election, The Mail on Sunday has learned.

A hard core of pro-Boris Tory MPs are privately vowing to force the Prime Minister to quit if he tries to form a second Coalition with the Lib Dems.

The Friends Of Boris (FOBs) then expect their man to sweep to victory in a party leadership contest before calling a second Election during the honeymoon period to capitalise on his popularity.

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The ‘BoJo’ power plot is based on Tory private predictions that David Cameron will struggle to win a clear Commons’ majority at the May 7 General Election but that he will lead the largest single party.

That leaves Mr Cameron with two options: try to govern as a minority administration or – as the Johnson camp expects – attempt to form a second coalition with Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats.

This is when Boris’s supporters will swing into action, by combining with Labour MPs to vote down the Coalition’s first Queen’s Speech setting out its legislative programme.

The defeat would amount to a no-confidence vote in Mr Cameron’s leadership and spark a Tory leadership contest. Humiliatingly for Mr Cameron, he would then have to act as an interim Prime Minister while his would-be replacements battled it out in a leadership contest.

That would stretch well into summer but with the Johnson camp confident of ultimate victory.

Once installed in No 10, Prime Minister Boris would himself have two options: try to run a minority Tory government or aim to win an outright Commons majority in a second Election later in the autumn – the first time since 1974 that there have been two elections in one year.