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Boris Johnson says goodbye – reluctantly

7 July 2022 10:03 pm

Boris Johnson has announced his resignation. Speaking outside 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister confirmed that he would reluctantly leave…

Full text: Boris Johnson’s resignation speech

7 July 2022 10:00 pm

Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you. It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative party that there should be…

Boris should leave No. 10 immediately

7 July 2022 9:24 pm

Boris Johnson should stand down with immediate effect. Yes, he has managed to fill various cabinet posts. But he will…

Could Boris Johnson last until November?

7 July 2022 8:42 pm

The prime minister is resigning today, and staying on as caretaker till the autumn, but that leaves very big decisions…

The real reason Boris has gone

7 July 2022 7:39 pm

Boris, your leader, hasn’t gone because he handled ineptly the fall-out from deputy chief whip Chris Pincher’s well-lubricated non-consensual bum-fun.…

The Tories will miss Boris now he’s gone

7 July 2022 7:14 pm

Boris Johnson was often talked about as the luckiest politician on earth — and in a sense he was. Outrageous…

Boris’s premiership in seven graphs

7 July 2022 6:50 pm

Boris Johnson has just resigned – forced out by the sheer number of resignations, leaving him without a government. He…

Full list: Tory endorsements for next leader

7 July 2022 6:19 pm

Boris Johnson will today announce his resignation as Prime Minister, with an official statement outside Downing Street expected later this…

Live: Boris fights on as cabinet resignations continue

7 July 2022 4:27 pm

Boris Johnson is fighting on as Prime Minister, after sacking Michael Gove from the cabinet on Wednesday night. He may…

Suella Braverman announces Tory leadership bid

7 July 2022 3:41 pm

Boris Johnson has so far had four cabinet ministers resign and sacked one – in the form of Michael Gove. Now,…

Questioning the pro-choice propaganda

7 July 2022 12:28 pm

You must have seen the horrific story reported out of Ohio. A 10-year-old child became pregnant through sexual abuse. Under…

Live: Michael Gove sacked as Boris Johnson begins reprisals

7 July 2022 8:27 am

Michael Gove has been sacked from the cabinet, as Boris Johnson attempts to reassert control after today’s 41 ministerial resignations.…

Watch: Douglas Murray clashes with Alastair Campbell

7 July 2022 6:54 am

As the news rolled in that Michael Gove had been sacked by Boris Johnson, our own Douglas Murray was on…

Boris Johnson will go down fighting

7 July 2022 6:49 am

Tonight it is clear that the only way Tory MPs can remove Boris Johnson is through the new 1922 executive…

Boris skewered – for one last time?

7 July 2022 4:37 am

A brutal encounter at the Liaison Committee this afternoon. Boris was grilled for two hours by a gang of aggressive…

Boris Johnson's five worst moments at the Liaison Committee

7 July 2022 3:35 am

It’s not been a good day for Boris Johnson. More than 50 Tory MPs have publicly called for him to…

Thatcher's downfall has a lesson for Boris's enemies

7 July 2022 3:34 am

Few leaders could be as different in character as Margaret Thatcher and Boris Johnson, but one can compare their predicaments…

Boris isn't ready to go

7 July 2022 2:10 am

Boris Johnson’s final hours as Prime Minister have been undignified. We do not yet know quite how this will end,…

Has Nadhim turned on Boris already?

7 July 2022 1:51 am

Has Nadhim Zahawi turned on Boris Johnson, just 24 hours after he was promoted to Chancellor? That’s the question all…

Is the end nigh for Boris?

7 July 2022 1:49 am

Boris Johnson is now facing a situation where if he doesn’t resign he will face more cabinet resignations. Johnson is…

Boris’s implosion was inevitable

7 July 2022 1:30 am

So it ends as it was always likely to end: as a disgrace inside a shambles, lost in a fog…

PMQs was a blue-on-blue bloodbath

6 July 2022 11:45 pm

Knife crime beset PMQs. It was a horrific blue-on-blue bloodbath as Tory backstabbers queued up to play the role of Brutus…

Who will tell Boris it’s over?

6 July 2022 11:32 pm

In the past couple of minutes, five ministers have resigned as a co-ordinated group and Michael Gove is reported to have…

What is the point of Boris Johnson?

6 July 2022 11:03 pm

However badly Boris Johnson’s career ends, it will surely be a better finale than that of his great-grandfather, the Turkish…

The most brutal line in Sajid Javid's resignation speech

6 July 2022 10:22 pm

Sajid Javid’s resignation in the Commons just now was coldly brutal. He’s had some practice, which he acknowledged, given this…