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Boris Johnson has announced his resignation as UK Prime Minister after being ranked No. 10 for less than three years.
Speaking from Downing Street on Thursday afternoon, July 7, he thanked the millions of people who voted for him and said the reason he had fought so long to stay at number 10 was because “I thought it was my job, my duty and my obligation to you”.
Johnson said it was “painful not to get through it”, but added: “No one in politics is remotely indispensable.”
He said he had tried to convince his cabinet it would be “eccentric” to change prime minister now, but “sorry I failed on those arguments”.
Mr Johnson said the process to appoint a new leader would begin now, with a timetable to be set next week.
The announcement comes after a series of scandals and months of political turbulence hit his government, with several conservative politicians, including health minister and chancellor, resigning from their posts.
In their resignations and speeches in the House of Commons, ministers said they were fed up with Johnson and his self-inflicted scandals, fueled by his excesses, with one former official saying “enough is enough”.
Johnson, who had vowed to remain in power, faced the heat for his mixed claims against Chris Pincher, a lawmaker who resigned as a government whip on June 30 following allegations of *misconduct.
Last Thursday, the Sun newspaper broke the news that Pincher, a Conservative MP, was resigning after a drunken evening at the Carlton private members’ club where he allegedly groped two men and touched at least one of them in the groin.
Pincher resigned for embarrassing himself and other people while intoxicated. Following the resignation, the government announced that no further action would be taken against Pincher and that he would keep his job as an MP for acknowledging his wrongdoing. This infuriated Conservative MPs, the BBC reported.
This was not the first time allegations of misconduct had been made against Pincher, who was elevated to power by Johnson as the party’s deputy chief.
After initial claims that the Prime Minister was not aware of allegations of wrongdoing against Pincher before appointing him as the deputy head whip, reports surfaced that not only was Johnson made aware of a formal complaint against Pincher in 2019-20, but also personally informed about it.
On Tuesday, Johnson admitted he was made aware of the complaint in 2019 and apologized for appointing Pincher to the government role.
The Pincher scandal is the latest in a string of scandals that Johnson has faced. After being criticized for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was charged in the ‘Partygate’ scandal that stemmed from parties and gatherings in Downing Street staged during the pandemic lockdowns.
Johnson was fined by police in April for breaking the law and attending a birthday party during the June 2020 lockdown.