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hello, welcome to bbc news at downing street. borisjohnson resigns as the leader of the conservative party. in a statement outside downing street, he said he was proud of his achievements but it was now clearly the will of tory mps that he stand down. it is clearly now the will of the parliamentary conservative party that there should be a new leader of that party, and therefore, a new prime minister. but as we have seen at westminster, the herd instinct is a powerful and when they hea...

Did not want him to leave. i backed him, i continue to back him, i wanted him to fight on. it is great sadness that the party chose something else, but he recognised that, i recognised that. we now will have a new leader and prime minister by the time of party conference, but to the world still rotates. the ukraine conflict goes on, the challenges of the economy go on and it is important, as well as regretting what has happened, the prime minister stays on course and delivers the decisions that ...

Mps and there will be quite a lot of surprise and a bit of sadness amongst his colleagues on the backbenches that he has gone. those are the ones we know have gone, but there are also questions surrounding dominic raab, who has gone in to see the prime instead is afternoon, and we are still waiting to see whether he will remain foreign secretary or will go on to a different department. we also expecting to hear that amanda milling, the co—chair of the conservative party, and we are expecting t...