Replacement Conservative Leader News Today

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...

Greg clark has been named new levelling up secretary, and james cleverly as education secretary. and robert buckland returns to the cabinet as wales secretary. some that had stayed loyal to the prime minister during the wave of resignations have shown their support for his decision to stand down. foreign secretary liz truss tweeted. .. and from the opposition, sir keir starmer has urged the pm not to "cling on" and to leave completely rather than remain until a replacement conservative leader is...

Decision to stand down. foreign secretary liz truss tweeted. .. and from the opposition, sir keir starmer has urged the pm not to "cling on" and leave completely rather than remain until a replacement conservative leader is found. shortly after 12.30pm this afternoon, borisjohnson walked out of the door of number 10 to confirm he will resign as conservative party leader. lets listen to what he had to say. in the last few days, i have tried to persuade my colleagues that it would be eccentric to ...