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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation Thursday and will step down as leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister following multiple scandals and significant loss of support from members of his party. Johnson indicated that he would remain as prime minister until the Tories can elect a new leader.
In a short address delivered from the prime minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street in London, Johnson said it was “clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader … and therefore a new prime minister.”
He thanked voters for handing Conservatives “the biggest Conservative majority since 1987” in the landslide election of 2019 and said he was grateful for the accomplishments of his government, which include Brexit, managing the COVID-19 pandemic, and “standing up to Putin” after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
