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.
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