//Another Confidence Vote cannot be held until a year after the last one. What other mechanisms are there to remove him?//
Ways and means, old boy, ways and means.
One of the tactics being discussed a few weeks ago was that backbenchers might go on a "vote strike". That is, they would refuse to vote in favour of any government measures put forward in the Commons. But if the Cabinet and backbenchers want him out, out he will go.
I'm pleased to say that Mr Johnson's days in No10 are drawing to a close. My only hope is that they can find a suitable replacement who will restore Conservative policies and values sufficiently in time for them to manifest themselves to the electorate before the next GE. I might then be persuaded to vote in it.
About 17,000 fewer people turned out to vote in Tiverton than did in 2019. If I lived there I would be among that number and so would quite a few people I know. Although Labour may be dancing from the rooftops, the Labour candidate lost her deposit. It is clear there is no way Labour will ever come close to winning such a seat as Tiverton & Honiton. Mind you, politics is a bit funny in the West Country. Older readers will recall that one Jeremy Thorpe represented the North Devon constituency for 20 years, before losing the seat to the Conservatives in the 1979 General Election (shortly after having been committed for trial on charges of conspiracy to murder and incitement to murder, charges on which he was later acquitted). It's a funny place is the West Country.