The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, sunk by the scandals, resigned this Thursday from the leadership of the Conservative Party and is under pressure to leave power now, without waiting for his formation to designate a successor.
In a message in front of the famous black door of number 10 Downing Street, The controversial 58-year-old leader announced that, in the face of growing internal pressure, he was resigning from the leadership of the government formation.
However, he stated that He will remain as head of government until his party holds internal elections in the summer to appoint a new leader before its annual congress in October. Whoever is elected will automatically become prime minister until the next legislative elections, scheduled for 2024.
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Meanwhile, he appointed new ministers and secretaries of state to replace the avalanche of resigners who left the executive in protest in the last two days. And he assured that he will not try, while he remains in office, to apply new policies or major changes in direction.
Johnson must not stay in Downing Street any longer than necessary
“Big fiscal decisions should be left to the next prime minister“, Downing Street indicated after the first meeting of the new cabinet. But, one of the figures of the Conservative Party, former Prime Minister John Major, immediately raised his voice against a situation that he described as “unsustainable”.
The British politician suggested that Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab act as interim head of government: “For the good of the country, Johnson must not stay in Downing Street any longer than necessary.”
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According to a YouGov poll, 56 percent of Britons agree that Johnson should leave power now, amid rumors that he is clinging to the post to throw a lavish wedding party at Checkers, the country residence of the prime ministers, given that when he married in May 2021 the restrictions due to the pandemic prevented it.
The critical cover of ‘The Economist’
Before the resignation of Johnson to the leadership of his party, the British weekly published a controversial cover titled ‘The fall of a clown’ (‘Clownfall’, in English)with a satirical image of the president about to fall from a broken zip line, accompanied by an analysis of his presidential term.
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The cover refers to the embarrassing moments that Boris spent when, in 2012, when he was still mayor of London, he was suspended for a few minutes hanging from a cable with a British flag in his hands.
You could barely hear him call for help: “Pass me a rope or a ladder“.
🇬🇧 We will have to be aware of whether Boris Johnson’s negotiating momentum in Brexit does not get stuck as in the zip line. pic.twitter.com/Ownd6FPRpY
— The World Order – EOM (@elOrdenMundial) July 23, 2019
The video went viral, but it did not stop him from continuing his political career.
Now, in the midst of a political crisis in the British country, there are many voices calling for his resignation and the world awaits what decision he will make.
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