- Boris Johnson steps down as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
- More than 50 ministers quit.
- parliamentarians demanded he step down.
Boris Johnson announced on Thursday that he will step down as prime minister of the United Kingdom. Lonely and helpless Johnson announced his resignation from Downing Street after more than 50 ministers resigned and parliamentarians demanded that he step down.
The scandal-plagued Johnson had been fighting for his job for days when the latest in a string of scandals caused all but a small group of his loyalists to turn against him.
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“His resignation was inevitable,” Justin Tomlinson, deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, said on Twitter.
I was Team Boris, as the GE showed he was our star player who connected across traditional political divides. Yes there were ups and downs, but he turbo-charged social mobility and opportunity.
— Justin Tomlinson MP (@JustinTomlinson) July 7, 2022
“As a party we must quickly unite and focus on what matters. These are serious times on many fronts.”
It will now be up to the Conservatives to choose a new leader, a procedure that might take weeks or months.
The finance minister, Nadhim Zahawi, who had only been appointed to his position on Tuesday, was the epitome of how support for Johnson had vanished over one of the most dramatic 24 hours in modern British political history.
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