LONDON — So Boris Johnson limps on — for now.
The scandal-hit British prime minister chalked up a hollow-looking victory in Monday night’s internal Conservative Party vote on his leadership, with a whopping 41 percent of his own MPs seeking in vain to force him from power after outrage over multiple COVID lockdown-breaking parties by government staff.
While Johnson’s allies had spent the day claiming that victory by even a single vote in the secret ballot would constitute success — “one [vote] is enough, so 60 percent is fine,” one loyal Cabinet minister insisted afterward — the scale of the rebellion suggests that in truth, the prime minister is
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