UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has secured his first victory in the House of Commons almost three months after becoming prime minister, leading to cheers from Tory MPs. Ahead of Tuesday's vote on environmental regulations, the prime minister had lost seven divisions in the chamber – more defeats than Tony Blair's entire decade at Number 10.
"I realise this is a unique moment," the deputy speaker Dame Eleanor Laing teased, as it became clear Mr Johnson's government had won its first vote.
It was on a statutory instrument relating to air quality, and the government won by 280 votes to 204 - a majority of 76.
There was some merriment in the Commons as the result was announced because this was such an unusual event.
“I realise this is a unique moment,” said Eleanor Laing, the deputy speaker, who was in the chair.
Johnson has been prime minister for almost three months now and that was the first proper vote he has won in the Commons.
Technically he has won one other vote, on an amendment to the Benn Act designed to give MPs a vote on the Theresa May Brexit plan.
But that amendment, which was defeated by 495 votes to 65, was opposed by Labour MPs as well as by most Tories, and so it was not a government v opposition contest.
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