Newspaper headlines: ‘Wounded Johnson in peril’ and PM 'vows to bash on’

EPAThe vote of confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson, which he won 211-148, dominates Tuesday's front pages.
"Wounded" is how The Times, the i, and the Financial Times all describe Mr Johnson, while The Telegraph, The Guardian, and The Star say he's been left "clinging to power". The Sun says the prime minister has survived... "just", but the Express insists he is "defiant and unbowed".
Writing in The Times, former Tory Leader William Hague urges the prime minister to go. He says the scale of the rejection is greater than any Tory leader has survived, adding that, had more than a third of his MPs voted against him when he led the party, he would have regarded his position as "untenable". Lord Hague says Mr Johnson should get out in a way that "spares party and country... agonies and uncertainties".
The Sun's editorial tells the MPs who voted against the prime minister to "take a hard look at themselves", saying they have "triggered a bloody civil war" at the worst time for their country and handed a gift to Sir Keir Starmer. The Mail similarly accuses them of having hit the "self-destruct" button by opening the door to what it calls a "smirking Starmer's coalition of chaos".
The i's Oliver Duff says the result has left Boris Johnson and the UK "trapped in a political purgatory" and that the attempted coup has left the prime minister too weak to govern effectively. It's a sentiment shared by the Guardian, which says "a miserable, hog-tied future beckons" for Mr Johnson. The Mirror's editorial dubs him a "zombie prime minister" whose energy is now "devoted to supergluing himself to No 10's back door".
A number of papers also speculate on who might replace Mr Johnson if he is ousted. The Telegraph reports that Defence Secretary Ben Wallace is considering standing in any leadership contest, while the Mirror gives the odds on what it calls ten "runners and riders", naming Jeremy Hunt, Liz Truss, and Tom Tugendhat as favourites.


In other news, the Mirror reports that petrol prices have gone up six pence a litre during the half term holiday, and a litre of unleaded could exceed £1.80 this week, with diesel heading to £1.90. The Telegraph says the RAC has called the situation "a national fuel crisis". According to the i, motoring groups are calling on the government to make a "radical intervention" to help drivers.
While Prince Louis was pictured in many of the papers over the jubilee weekend, it's his cousin, Lilibet, who features today. The Telegraph gives the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex two thirds of a page on her first birthday, while The Sun gives her pride of place on its front page.

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