Boris Johnson could be unseated as Prime Minister today, it has been confirmed.

Sir Graham Brady, the leader of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs, announced this morning that he had received more than 54 letters backing a vote.

That is the number needed to trigger a confidence motion in the PM, who will now have to persuade a majority of Conservatives to back him if he is to continue in the job.

If he wins, he will have a year in office before another vote can be held. But even though previous PMs have won confidence votes, the likes of Theresa May, John Major and Margaret Thatcher have been fatally damaged by such votes.

Sir Graham said in a statement: ‘The threshold of 15% of the parliamentary party seeking a vote of confidence in the leader of the Conservative Party has been exceeded.

‘In accordance with the rules, a ballot will be held between 6pm and 8pm today, Monday 6th JUNE – details to be confirmed.

‘The votes will be counted immediately afterwards. An announcement will be made at a time to be advised. Arrangements for the announcement will be released later today.’

He later added that the PM was told about the threshold being passed yesterday.

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I have supported Boris Johnson for 15 years, for the London Mayoralty and for PM. Very sadly, I have written to him to say I can no longer do so, for the reasons set out below. pic.twitter.com/0Mjs4hjeSF

Earlier today, long-time supporter Jesse Norman submitted a brutal letter of no confidence in the PM.

The former minister said that Mr Johnson’s current policy priorities were ‘deeply questionable’ and that there were no circumstances in which he could serve in a government led by him.

In the letter, he warned that any breach of the Northern Irish Protocol would be ‘economically very damaging, politically foolhardy and almost certainly illegal’.

‘You are the leader of the Conservative and Unionist party, yet you are putting the Union itself gravely at risk,’ Mr Norman said.

He added that the Government’s Rwanda policy was ‘ugly, likely to be counterproductive and of doubtful legality’ and that plans to privatise Channel 4 were ‘unnecessary and provocative’.

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