Amidst Growing Crisis Boris Johnson Resigns as Uk Prime Minister
Boris Johnson has announced his resignation as prime minister of the United kingdom after less than three years in office.
Johnson who gave a speech from Downing Street on Thursday afternoon, July 7, said he thanked the millions of people who voted for him and said the reason why he had fought so long to remain at Number 10 was because “I thought it was my job, my duty and my obligation to you”.
He said it was “painful not to see it through”, but added: “No one in politics is remotely indispensable.”
The former prime minister said he had tried to persuade his cabinet it would be “eccentric” to change prime minister now but “I regret not to have been successful in those arguments”.
Boris Johnson said the process to appoint a new leader would begin now, with a timetable set out next week.
The announcement comes after a series of scandals and months of political turbulence struck his governtment, with several Conservative politicians, including health secretary and chancellor, resigning from their positions.
In their resignation letters and speeches in the House of Commons, ministers said they were fed up with Boris Johnson and his self-inflicted scandals, stoked by his prevarications, with one former official saying “enough is enough.”
Johnson was facing the heat for his role in shifting claims on Chris Pincher, a lawmaker who stepped down as a government whip on June 30 following allegations of sexual misconduct.
