Boris Johnson Resignation RECAP: Johnson resignation speech | PM statement blames 'herd' | Leadership contest
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The Prime Minster has announced he will step down from office.
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Key Events
- Boris Johnson to resign, but remain caretaker until the autumn to allow a leadership contest.
- He is due to give a statement to the country today.
- Over 50 ministers have resigned over the last day after sexual assault allegations emerged involving the Deputy Chief Whip.
- Foreign Secretary Liz Truss cutting short trip to G20 meeting in Indonesia - will make statement
Analysis from The Scotsman political reporter Hannah Brown on Scottish Conservative reaction.
“The majority of Scottish Tory MPs have been resolute in being ‘ashamed’ and ‘embarrassed’ by the PM and his insistence to stay in power. Comments such as blaming the ‘herd instinct’ will be testament to their already established views of Johnson throwing his toys out the pram.”
John Lamont, who resigned as a ministerial aide over Boris Johnson premiership a month ago to vote against him in confidence vote, says he is glad colleagues came to same conclusion. PM “must now step down immediately and make way for a caretaker Prime Minister”.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer appears to be insisiting that Boris Johnson leave now, rather than remain.
Is threatening a vote of no confidence.
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Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald said that Boris Johnson’s interactions with Ireland have been “wholly negative”, saying he will “not be missed”.
“Under his leadership we have seen an attack on the Good Friday Agreement, threat after threat to break international law,” Ms McDonald said in Dublin.
“Boris Johnson’s government brought austerity to the people of the North of Ireland and, of course, he championed and brought Brexit, the disaster that is Brexit, to all of us.
“It needs to be stated clearly that whoever succeeds Boris Johnson as Prime Minister needs to change direction and change tact.
“We need the (Northern Ireland) Assembly and the Executive established without delay.
“We need a government that delivers for people and we need it very quickly, we are in the grip of a cost-of-living crisis.
“We need a British government that respects international law, fulfils its obligations under the Good Friday Agreement and understands, without any shadow of a doubt, that Ireland will not be the collateral for the Tory Brexit.
“Boris Johnson’s interactions with Ireland have been wholly negative and he will not be missed.”
Just to help clarify - the below tweet is a letter from former PM John Major to the 1922 committee urging them to ensure Boris Johnson does not stay on as caretaker and leave office immediately. Extraordinary.
Jeremy Corbyn: “Johnson is the third PM to fall in six years because there is no solution to the deep economic and environmental crisis we face that picks our pockets and steals our future. Real change isn’t a new Tory PM but a new politics to redistribute wealth and power.”
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