UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson resigns
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced his resignation as Conservative party leader following a wave of government resignations.
“It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister,” he said on Thursday.
“So I want to say to the millions of people who voted for us in 2019, many of them voted Conservative, for the first time. Thank you for that incredible mandate. The biggest Conservative majority, since 1987,” he added.
Johnson’s departure marks a remarkable downfall for a Prime Minister who was once seen as having political superpowers, with an appeal that transcended traditional party lines.
But his premiership unraveled in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The most immediate cause of his demise was the fallout from Johnson’s botched handling of a scandal surrounding a government official who is alleged to have groped two people at a dinner last week.
But Johnson has faced numerous other scandals that have hit his standing in the polls — despite his 80-seat landslide general election victory less than three years ago
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