London - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will meet his Cabinet on Tuesday after surviving Monday’s no-confidence vote.

Johnson won the vote late on Monday by 211 votes to 148 - enough to avoid having to immediately resign but a larger than anticipated rebellion within his party that leaves him politically wounded and battling to win back the confidence of his colleagues and the general public.

The Daily Telegraph called the result a "hollow victory. The Sun tabloid declared "PM survives ... Just"

Calling the result a "pyrrhic victory", the Times leader column said the narrow win left Johnson's political authority badly dented and his party even more divided.

Johnson vowed to “get on with the job” and focus on “what matters to the British people” — defined as the economy, health care and crime

Under party rules, Johnson is now free from another challenge for a year. But previous prime ministers who have faced no-confidence votes, including May and Margaret Thatcher, were left terminally damaged.

Johnson's predecessor Theresa May won a larger percentage of a similar confidence vote in 2018, only to resign six months later.

Johnson’s first challenge will be to convince his most senior allies, some of whom would have likely run to replace him if he had been forced out, that he will be able to move on from questions about his leadership.

His office issued a statement saying he would use the meeting to set out his vision for the coming weeks, including new policies to reduce the cost of childcare and to help more people buy their own homes.
-Reuters/Ap