Boris Johnson Resigns as UK Prime Minister

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Boris Johnson has just resigned as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The 58-year-old politician had been hearing calls for his resignation in the weeks leading up to today’s announcement.

In the past 48 hours, more than 50 government staff resigned in the lead-up to Boris‘ announcement, calling for him to resign as well. Click inside to read his speech… “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.

I have agreed with Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of our backbench MPs, that the process of choosing that new leader will begin now.

The timetable will be announced next week and I have today appointed a Cabinet to serve, as I will until a new leader is in place,” he said in his resignation speech. “So I want to say to the millions of people who voted for us in 2019 – many of them voting Conservative for the first time – thank you for that incredible mandate.