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Boris Johnson will be ousted before the next election, the former Tory chancellor said

Boris Johnson is doomed to be ousted from his own party ahead of the next general election following a devastating no-confidence vote this week, said former Chancellor Philip Hammond.

The former cabinet minister said the “letters are on the wall” for the prime minister after 41% of his own lawmakers voted to remove him – predicting that his authority would “fall away” in the next few months.

“I do not think he will lead the party in the next general election. “I think a riot of this magnitude is very difficult to survive,” Hammond told Bloomberg.