BREAKING: BBC understands that Boris Johnson will resign as Conservative leader today...
He’s done it. Boris Johnson is resigning.There is always a prime minister. The job he is resigning from is Conservative Party leader. A leadership contest for a new Tory leader will now begin.
When that leader is elected - by around 100,000-ish Conservative Party members - Boris Johnson will tender his resignation to the Queen and she will summon the leader of the party that can assemble a majority in the Commons to ask them to form a government. That will be the new Conservative leader; they will become prime minister. That’s how Downing Street are talking through their anticipated chain of events.
But: is it sustainable for him to carry on until the autumn? His supporters will argue that offers some semblance of continuity and stability at a time where there’s not much of either. Critics, such as Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, are already arguing it isn’t sustainable, given the huge number of vacancies in government.Article share tools
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