EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Agreed - but he can't, not unless he can bring a decent number of Tories onside as well as everyone else (it would need to be enough to offset the labour leavers).

If he can show evidence that he can do that, fair enough. But as far as I can see he can't, and yet is still insisting it has to be him in charge. Which is ludicrous, if he doesn't have majority support.

Right, I read somewhere it doesn't work that way. Though putting yourself forward is less subtle than "we let queenie sort it" and the she says "hey Corby..."

But it is known the Tories aren't supporting a vote of no confidence atm... so hopefully there is a plan b. Or the rebels finally actually really resign...

The rulebook says that when a vote of no confidence happens queenie turns to the leader of the opposition to see if they can form a government.

This is untrue. If Johnson loses a vote of no confidence he has two weeks to shore up support, then the default is a general election but he has to go to the Queen to trigger it, not the other way round. It's a real prospect right now that if he does lose a vote of no confidence he may hang on in long enough to ensure Brexit goes through without a deal before an election, citing public interest, the will of the people etc.

There's a degree of constitutional debate about this precisely because there is no rulebook: we have an unwritten constitution.