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The 1742 vote of no confidence in the government of Robert Walpole was the first time that a prime minister of Great Britain resigned after a vote of no confidence by the House of Commons. Walpole is regarded as the first British prime minister, although this was not an official position until the early twentieth century.
A confidence motion may take the form of either a vote of confidence, usually put forward by the government, or a vote of no confidence (or censure motion [1]), usually proposed by the opposition. When such a motion is put to a vote in the legislature, if a vote of confidence is defeated, or a vote of no confidence is passed, then the incumbent ...
John Diefenbaker (1963) – loss of confidence supply as a result of cabinet revolt; Pierre Trudeau (1974) – loss of confidence supply [a] Joe Clark (1979) – lost a budget vote; Paul Martin (2005) – opposition triggered motion [b] Stephen Harper (2011) – motion of no confidence that held the government in contempt of Parliament.
The Scottish Conservatives confirmed they will lodge a vote of no confidence in Humza Yousaf – with Tory leader Douglas Ross branding him “weak” and a “failed First Minister”.
Vaughan Gething, the embattled First Minister of Wales, has lost a vote of no confidence tabled by the Welsh Conservatives. The motion follows the collapse of the co-operation deal between Labour ...
The cases in which a motion of no confidence has passed are generally those in which the government party's slim majority has been eliminated by either by-elections or defections, such as the 1979 vote of no confidence in the Callaghan ministry in the UK which was carried by one vote and forced a general election, which was won by Margaret ...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government would win a vote of no confidence put forward by the opposition Labour Party, energy minister Kwasi Kwarteng said on Friday. On Thursday Labour urged ...
The threat of bringing a no confidence motion to the House of Commons was first made on 7 July, at the height of the government crisis. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Labour had intended to present the motion on 12 July, using the following wording: "That this House has no confidence in Her Majesty's Government while the Rt Hon Member for Uxbridge and South ...