Boris Johnson resigns as Conservative leader after cabinet revolt
by Rowena Mason Deputy political editor from World news | The Guardian on (#615GG)
Johnson succumbs to pressure to quit as party leader but pledges to stay on as prime minister until successor is chosen
Boris Johnson has resigned as Conservative leader and blamed the herd instinct" of Tory MPs for pushing him out of office, after a series of cabinet ministers told him he had lost the support of the party.
In a statement outside Downing Street, Johnson acknowledged that no one is remotely indispensable" and accepted that it was the will of the parliamentary Conservative party" that he should leave No 10.
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