Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, July 7: Boris Johnson, who was abandoned by newly appointed ministers and more than 50 others in a mutiny that brought the British government perilously close to paralysis, will announce his resignation as prime minister on Thursday, according to the BBC.
According to media reports, Johnson was prepared to accept defeat and announce his resignation later after eight ministers, including two secretaries of state resigns in the last two hours.
After fighting for his job for days, Johnson had lost all except a small group of his allies. It was a far cry from Johnson’s rise to power in 2019 when he gained a sizable majority and earned support from regions of Britain that had never voted for his Conservative Party before.
Even Nadhim Zahawi, who was just appointed to his position as finance minister on Wednesday, has called for his boss to step down.
“This is not sustainable and it will only get worse: for you, for the Conservative Party and most importantly of all the country. You must do the right thing and go now,” he said on Twitter.
Following a government exodus, UK education minister Michelle Donelan, who had only been in the position for two days, resigned on Thursday, claiming that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had placed her in ‘an unsustainable situation.’
