Boris Johnson will resign as the leader of the Conservative Party on Thursday and will be prime minister until the fall, the BBC reported.
“Boris Johnson will step down as Conservative leader today and continue as Prime Minister until the autumn,” said Chris Mason, the BBC’s political editor.
He added that the Tory leadership election will be held this summer and the winner will replace Johnson by October.
Media reports indicate that with the departure of 8 ministers, including two interior ministers who submitted their resignations in the last two hours, and Johnson’s feeling of increasing isolation, it seems that the prime minister has no choice but to surrender to his fate and There is no announcement. His resignation later today
After days of fighting to hold on to his position, most of Johnson’s allies, with a few exceptions, abandoned him.
It was a very different scene from 2019, when Johnson took power with a large majority after winning votes in parts of the UK that previously did not support the Conservative Party.
Even Nazim al-Zahavi, the finance minister who was appointed only on Wednesday, demanded the resignation of the prime minister.
“This is an unsustainable situation that will only get worse for you, the Conservative Party and most importantly for the country as a whole,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
“You should do the right thing and leave now,” he added.
Earlier, Johnson defied pressure for senior ministers to step down and a growing rebellion in his own party, saying he would resist any attempt to remove him over a series of scandals.
A source said that after more than 55 resignations from within the government and with several members of the ruling Tory party openly revolting, some ministers went to Downing Street to tell Johnson he had to go.
One encouraged him to dignify himself by setting a timetable rather than face a no-confidence vote, and several lawmakers said the question now was when he should step down.
Dozens of people publicly criticized Johnson’s integrity after he was forced to apologize for appointing a lawmaker to a party discipline position, noting that he was not informed that the politician had been the focus of sexual misconduct complaints.
It was the latest crisis to rock his government after months of scandals and blunders, as a scathing report emerged about parties in his Downing Street residence and office that breached strict coronavirus lockdown rules and fined him by police. did .
About three years ago, Johnson came to power promising to deliver Britain’s exit from the European Union, saving it from the bitter infighting that followed the 2016 referendum to leave the union.
Since then, some Tories have enthusiastically backed the journalist and former London mayor, while others have backed him, albeit with reservations, as he managed to win over sections of the electorate that would normally reject their party.
This was confirmed in the December 2019 election, but his administration’s often combative and chaotic approach to governance and a series of scandals have displeased many of his deputies, while polls suggest he is no longer popular with the public. does not have.
In addition to the scandals, there have been policy changes, defenses of lawmakers who broke lobbying laws and criticism that he has not done enough to tackle inflation as many Britons struggle to cope with rising fuel prices. They try to eat.
Source: Lebanon Debate
