Boris Johnson announced his resignation, but said wants to stay on as PM until the Conservative Party elects a new leader In his resignation letter he said PM will be remembered with "energy, vision, determination and humour", Saying the No 10 garden was at the time routinely used as “an extension of the office”, Johnson argued that he had believed the event was a work gathering, and that the event “could be said, technically, to fall within the guidance”.

And the Home Secretary Priti Patel avoided the glare of the cameras entirely - delivering her blow to the PM in private.As a deeply divisive figure within the parliamentary party, who has an inquiry into the Partygate affair still hanging over him, Johnson remains popular with the Tory grassroots, who could get a say in the process of choosing a new leader. A YouGov poll earlier this week found 32% put him as their top candidate, ahead of Sunak at 23%.

This could include dealing with correspondence, replying to questions from MPs and making sure bills get passed through Parliament smoothly.A leadership contest is already under way, with transport secretary Grant Shapps and former health secretary Sajid Javid considering running in the Conservative leadership contest, while Attorney General Suella Braverman and Tonbridge and Malling MP Tom Tugendhat are putting their names forward Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister is over, and that means so is his tenure living in 10 Downing Street. Video caption: Boris Johnson resigns as Tory leader: Voters from across England react to the news Boris Johnson resigns as Tory leader: Voters from across England react to the news Ms Dorries tweeted: “There is no unity candidate. No one has enough support. Only one MP has a mandate from party members and from the British public – a mandate with an 80 seat majority. Boris Johnson.

Leaving him in a position where he can use the power of the premiership to suit his own causes and his own interests is a very dangerous thing to do,” he told the BBC. They are people who have never really supported the prime minister, two of the ones you mentioned have always been quite strongly opposed to him, and therefore you would expect them to be relatively grumpy, and so that’s not surprising. However, he has been named the new president of the Conservative Friends of Ukraine group, his first official new role since resigning. In a meeting with his new cabinet members, Johnson said "major fiscal decisions" would be left for the next prime minister and the government "would not seek to implement new policies"James Daly, parliamentary private secretary to the Department of Work and Pensions, resigned from his role "with great regret". The Commons leader, Jacob Rees-Mogg, has unsurprisingly leapt to the defence of Johnson, telling Times Radio: Maqsud Gillani said: “He did OK for a long time and made some good calls. I think we did well during Covid and with the vaccine programme as that was very tough for him." She said hearing of “yet another wrongdoing, another slip-up” by those at the top of government is “traumatising”, saying healthcare workers “collectively feel insulted”. She said:

The balance has tipped now in favour of saying that the prime minister - it pains me to say it - but it's time to go." Good evening, Tom Ambrose here to bring you all the latest fallout from Westminster today as Boris Johnson’s own MPs continue to turn up the heat on the prime minister after his display in the Commons this afternoon.Speaking outside the Spectator summer party, he told journalists: “No, I’m not going to stand, but I care deeply that it’s somebody who will deliver for people, and will really make sure that the Conservative party is there to get through difficult times.” Someone like Grant Shapps, my boss, I’ve seen him work at close quarters and I think he has done an outstanding job. bullshit cos altern is admit he broke rules + resign https://t.co/J3jslbQV9A— Dominic Cummings (@Dominic2306) January 12, 2022 He adds: "Colleagues have done their upmost [sic] in private and public to help you turn the ship around, but it is with sadness that I feel we have passed the point where this is possible". What it does, it reminds us of what we were doing at that time. And what was I doing in May 2020? I was dressed in PPE. Yeah, the weather was warm. I was sweating. Trying not to pass out every time I went into the contamination room to see a patient who had Covid in our full PPE. We weren’t going out in the evenings to gather as colleagues to have drinks.