Peter Bone on NewsNight saying he did not understand why Labour was not bring forward a no confidence vote.

He understands perfectly well why not, but just to spell it out.

The Conservatives want to remain in government but want to change their leader. That is entirely a party matter. Labour calling a no confidence vote *in the government* is an entirely different thing to Conservatives calling a no confidence vote *in their leader*. You can change leader without a general election. So if Labour did call a no-confidence vote all the Conservatives would vote to stay in power, and Labour would lose.

But let us suppose that didn't happen. Suppose the was a general election. Well, the Conservatives would still be stuck with Johnson as leader; it would not solve anything from their point of view.