Analysis: PM was bullish, resentful and unrepentant as he reprised what he saw as his achievements
Boris Johnson’s unrepentant resignation speech
That could mean a faster leadership contest than envisaged in the discussions between Johnson and Brady or even a handover to a caretaker leader, though Johnson’s emergencyI want to say to the millions of people who voted for us in 2019, many of them voting Conservative for the first time, thank you for that incredible mandate, the biggest Conservative majority since 1987, the biggest share of the vote since 1979.
An alternative perspective is that he did not “get Brexit done”, as the ongoing wrangle over the Northern Ireland protocol underlines. He botched the handling of the Covid pandemic, and he dragged his party through a humiliating string of self-inflicted scandals.Let me say now to the people of Ukraine, I know that we in the UK will continue to back your fight for freedom for as long as it takes.
Those urging him to make a dignified exit included some of his closest erstwhile allies, but instead of acknowledging they may have had a point, he insults them as eccentric and acting as a herd.badly lost a pair of key byelections last month
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