Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson Resigns

On Thursday, Boris Johnson announced that he would be resigning as Britain’s Prime Minister after many of his advisers and government ministers called for him to do so. “It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister, and I’ve agreed with Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of our backbench M.P.s, that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now and the timetable will be announced next week,” Johnson said in his resignation speech. “And I’ve today appointed a cabinet to


