The embattled United Kingdom prime minister, Boris Johnson said yesterday he was “sad to give up the best job in the world”.
The Prime Minister had vowed not to quit despite serious pressure from his party leaders, cabinet members, and the public.
He took the final decision to step aside at 8.30 am yesterday after more than 50 members of parliament (MPs), many of them his loyalists, quit the cabinet.
Johnson wrote in his resignation speech: “I want you to know how sad I am to be giving up the best job in the world…
“It is the will of the parliamentary Conservative party that there should be a new leader of that party, and therefore a new prime minister.”
Before his resignation, a source in No 10 Downing Street said: “There were tears when he admitted the game was up this morning (yesterday). Yesterday (on Tuesday), some things looked possible… but we tried everything.”
The source said the PM was ‘mainly alone’ as he wrote the resignation statement then he sent aides out into the street to wait while he prepared himself to deliver it.
