BBC News Reality Check

Boris Johnson told MPs: "We're cutting taxes... for everyone who pays National Insurance contributions by an average of £330 just next month."

The £330 cut is a result of the point at which people start to pay national insurance rising from earnings of £9,570 to £12,570 a year.

But the reductions, which come into force in July, will be smaller than the increases in taxes the chancellor announced in the previous year.

And we know from the government’s independent forecaster the Office for Budget Responsibility that the overall tax burden is going to rise from 33% of GDP (a measure of the size of the economy) in 2019-20 to 36.3% of GDP in 2026-27, which is the highest since the late 1940s.

You can read more about it here.

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Defending his record on the NHS, the prime minister told MPs: "We have 11,800 more nurses this year than last year".

He's roughly right. Latest figures show 321,018 full-time equivalent NHS nurses and health visitors in England in February 2022.

If we compare this to February 2021 – when NHS nurse numbers were 309,630 – there are now 11,388 more nurses.

In 2019, the Conservatives pledged 50,000 more nurses in England by March 2025.

By February 2022, there were 24,295 more nurses than in December 2019, leaving a further 25,705 posts to fill in the next three years.

Challenged at Prime Minister's Questions over the government's record on the NHS by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Boris Johnson told MPs "we're building 48 new hospitals". But is this claim correct?

The government has three definitions of what constitutes a "new" hospital:

• A whole new hospital on a new site or current NHS land
• A major new clinical building on an existing site or a new wing of an existing hospital
• A major refurbishment and alteration of all but building frame or main structure

An analysis by the BBC and the Nuffield Trust in December 2021 found that of the 40 hospital projects already announced by the government (with eight more to be announced), 22 are rebuilding projects, 12 will be new wings within existing hospitals, three involve rebuilding non-urgent care hospitals and three are entirely new hospitals.

Yesterday, when the BBC asked for an update, a spokesperson for the Department of Health said the first of the 40 hospitals "opened for patients last year and a further six are in construction".

We have asked about the status of the other 33 and are awaiting a response.

You can see whether or not the government is meeting more of its pledges here.

Keir Starmer said there were "not enough GPs - [it's] too hard to get an appointment. That's why he promised 6,000 new GPs, but his health secretary admits he won't keep that promise."

The 2019 Conservative manifesto did indeed promise 6,000 more GPs for England by March 2025.

There were 35,855 full-time equivalent GPs in post in April 2022. That's up by 1,147 since the end of December 2019.

Asked about whether the target would be met by the Health and Social Care Committee in November 2021, Health Secretary Sajid Javid said: "I definitely want to see that increase, but I am not going to pretend that we are on track when clearly we are not."

Mr Johnson responded to Keir Starmer that "we now have 4,300 more doctors". That is the figure for the increase in hospital and community doctors in the past year.

But it is not the figure for GPs, which was the manifesto pledge Mr Starmer was talking about.

You can read more about government pledges here.

In December 2018, Jacob Rees-Mogg spoke to the BBC about the result of the confidence vote in Theresa May.

The then prime minister won the vote with 63% of Conservative MPs backing her, somewhat better than the 59% who supported Boris Johnson last night.

At the time, Rees-Mogg described the 2018 verdict as “a terrible result for the prime minister... The prime minister must realise that under all constitutional norms she ought to go and see the Queen urgently and resign.”

However, he described Johnson’s win – with a smaller majority than May – as “a good victory for the prime minister – he won comfortably – and now he is getting on with business”.

On 6 June on Sky News, Rees-Mogg said of his earlier comments on May: “Everyone said to me afterwards that was absolute nonsense and I had to eat a good deal of my own words.”

Talking about the result of the confidence vote, the prime minister said last night: "Don't forget that when I first stood to be leader of the Conservative Party in 2019 I didn't get anything like that much support from my colleagues in Parliament."

It’s important to remember that was a very different process – in the 2019 leadership election there were several rounds of voting among Conservative MPs to get down to the final two candidates who would go to a ballot of the whole membership of the party.

The final ballot of Tory MPs was between Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove.

Boris Johnson got 160 of the 312 votes (with one spoilt ballot) which was 51% and indeed lower than the 59% he received in Monday’s vote.

But clearly in 2019 it was a choice between three candidates - whereas in Monday’s vote it was just a choice between confidence and no confidence.