British Prime Minister Boris Johnson agreed to resign as Conservative Party leader Thursday, the BBC reports. The expected announcement comes after a historic number of government resignations, triggered by a series of scandals, left Johnson’s position untenable.
Why it matters: It’s a stunning fall for a prime minister who in 2019 won a historic 80-seat majority on the back of his pledge to take the U.K. out of the European Union.
- At the time, Johnson’s popularity and the weakness of opposition parties led many to believe he could serve for at least two terms.
- But an endless stream of scandals beginning last fall — compounded by the Johnson government’s inconsistent explanations — has instead seen him ousted in disgrace in less than three years.
The latest: The BBC and other British media reported that Johnson would announce his resignation later Thursday.
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All Western countries are governed by anti Western people. How is this possible? Dominion voting machines? Inquiring minds want to know.
I wish our forefathers would have put concrete steps to resignation, recall, whatever you want to call it. That and term limits