Boris Johnson Announces Resignation: “When the Herd Moves, It Moves”
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed Thursday (July 7) that he will resign as leader of the Conservative Party and step down as prime minister once a replacement is selected.
Johnson said this was a "painful" moment, and noted that he'd fought hard to avoid it. "It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader ... and therefore a new prime minister," Johnson said.
He thanked the voters who gave him a landslide general election victory in December 2019, and said he'd resisted the calls to resign because "I felt it was my job, my duty, my obligation to you to continue to do what we promised in 2019."
Referring to the Conservative members of Parliament who turned against him he said, "The herd instinct is powerful and when the herd moves, it moves."
? Source: Axios
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