Boris Johnson has resigned as leader of the Conservative party, and will remain prime minister until a new leader is found. Boris Johnson has stood down as Conservative leader, but will continue to serve as PM until the party chooses his successor.

Boris Johnson heads off on summer holiday just weeks before Boris Johnson heads off on summer holiday just weeks before

Here is a timeline of the recent political crises that have engulfed the prime minister’s leadership. Mr Johnson vowed to “keep going” despite fresh calls for him to step down, including from former Conservative leader Michael Howard. A conversation between Mr Reynolds and Cabinet Secretary Simon Case from December 2021 was shown to the inquiry on Monday. No 10 has announced the new ministers appointed to fill the gaps left after the mass resignations this week In the last 30 years an ever-growing proportion of British women have been ‘incentivised’ or socially gestapoed into the workplace, on what seems to me to be the dubious assumption that the harder a woman works the happier she will be, when I am not sure that is true of women or anyone else.Further resignations from senior Tories rolled in on Thursday morning. After less than 48 hours as education secretary, Michelle Donelan quit. Brandon Lewis also resigned as Northern Ireland secretary.

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This fails to recognise the deeply entrenched and complex factors influencing poor health and obesity. There is little mention of how the NHS, far from simply being a treatment service, has a key role to play in contributing to better socioeconomic outcomes in all regions of the country. The group asks if a new variant emerges that requires fresh public health measures, will Johnson have the "moral authority" to impose them? For those who can't get enough of robust debate, BBC Question Time will be live tonight from Barnsley. The north suffers the worst health inequalities in the country – primarily due to the long-term effects of economic disadvantage at population level. If the government is truly committed to levelling up R&D funding in the north, we need to see investment at scale and to join up activity across all areas of excellence in the region where we have a critical mass of research expertise and companies that can create the jobs that are needed. In autumn 2020, Cabinet Secretary Mr Case wrote on a WhatsApp group with Mr Cain and Mr Cummings that he was "at the end of my tether" with Mr Johnson, pointing out that he "changes direction" every day.The inquiry heard that Mr Johnson’s former chief adviser Mr Cummings had suggested that in February and March 2020 there was “an untoward degree of optimism bias on the part of the prime minister”.

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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"Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak were fined for attending the prime minister’s birthday bash in Downing Street in June 2020, as part of a Metropolitan Police probe into alleged parties at the heart of the government during the pandemic. A handwritten note about the idea of suspending parliament for five weeks was initially revealed in 2019 by Downing Street as it resisted legal challenges in Edinburgh and London to the prorogation of parliament, both of which cases were eventually won by No 10. Labour criticised Mr Johnson for declaring a free holiday at the Mustique villa with Mrs Johnson on the list of ministers’ interests, but not on the parliamentary register

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Paul Scully MP to be a Minister of State at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. He remains as Minister for London. Rishi Sunak, who walked out of the Treasury on Tuesday within minutes of Sajid Javid quitting, had been widely seen as the frontrunner until a series of missteps, including the botched spring statement. Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson of “parroting the conspiracy theories of violent fascists” for political gain after the prime minister doubled down on false claims about the Labour leader’s blame for the failure to prosecute Jimmy Savile. Boris Johnson will start his summer holiday today, despite his premiership ending in less than five weeks time.Shaw says the 30 fixed penalty referrals announced today correspond with the number of people who reportedly attended the birthday party. Johnny Mercer MP to be a Minister of State (Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) at the Cabinet Office. He will attend Cabinet Relax. It’s only Kimberly, with some helpful suggestions for boosting circulation. Just pat her on the bottom and send her on her way. Tottymeter