Sky reporting that a resignation statement is being prepared

Posters are advocating the Queen appoints a caretaker PM. I thought we are constantly told she’s apolitical. So it seems she’s not!

Nanaval4G

easybe and nankate I am in your camp. What is it with the conservative party that they have to be so back stabbing instead of supportive, Those that have resigned have only done so because they want to be able to put themselves forward for the new conservative leader and therefore PM. Boris has had the hardest job of any other PM, apart from perhaps during and immediately after the war years, and I personally thank goodness he was the one dealing with it because I don't think anyone else could have done the job so well. The press win again. Now I know how Prince Harry feels about the poisonous british press. By the way, anyone know how the investigation into the Kier Starmer Party is going, oh no, the press are more insterested in stabbing Boris in the back.

I'm in your camp too.
Boris has been hounded by the media since day 1.
Be careful what you wish for people.
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't.

GANNET

Such an unedifying spectacle- journalists can’t stop gloating and colleagues fighting to replace him. Careful what you wish for in terms of the future. The thoughts of living through a mish mash coalition of Labour and Lib Dems and whoever else is a nightmare scenario where absolutely nothing gets done. Boris was not good as PM but I think we are naive if we think there are better people in any party at the moment. I can’t bear how so anti-British so many people are on here -the more pain and the problems for the UK the happier they are. Bizarre

Yes. Thank goodness we’ve had the stability of a Conservative government instead of the chaos that an Ed Miliband government would have created. Just remind me how many PM’s and elections we’ve had over the past 12 years.

Such an unedifying spectacle- journalists can’t stop gloating and colleagues fighting to replace him. Careful what you wish for in terms of the future. The thoughts of living through a mish mash coalition of Labour and Lib Dems and whoever else is a nightmare scenario where absolutely nothing gets done. Boris was not good as PM but I think we are naive if we think there are better people in any party at the moment. I can’t bear how so anti-British so many people are on here -the more pain and the problems for the UK the happier they are. Bizarre

Whitewavemark2

Of course it is possible that he has written two letters??.

One to leave and one to remain

???

He might be resigning but the plan is to keep him in post until September whilst a new leader is elected. Suggestions are those that have resigned (57) come back into post to continue government business so basically no change for a couple of months. How on earth can that work-Boris commanding his ‘traitors’ with several of them campaigning for his job. Plenty of time for Boris to inflict more damage on the country

The media will decide who will be the next PM in particular the smirking news presenters and so called political editors then once in place they will destroy them

So Cummings & Beth Rigby will be gloating now along with all the press who have done nothing but run Boris down! Not a Boris lover by any means but do feel for him. Do not like politicians as they all have their own agendas & will stab in the back anyone in their way. Gods help this country whoever is Prime Minister or whichever party wins the next election! I feel like hiding till it is all over but that will do no good at all! Maybe Putin will sling a bomb our way as he keeps threatening & we wont have to worry as we will no longer be here will we?

karmalady please think again! From what I have read over the past year, he is an unpleasant, self-seeker (yes, many politicians are) but, added to that, take a look at this and ask what sort of future we will have with him in charge. (Hope link works, if not, it's in the Guardian)

www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/07/anti-green-mp-steve-baker-considering-running-for-pm-if-boris-johnson-goes

I think the Queen should put Mick Lynch in as caretaker PM. If only.
The worst snake is Stephen Baker, he was the one who organised Brexit and ran the WhatsApp ring. Always out of range.. now he has the nerve to say he will put himself forward. A Machiavellian right wing ideologue if ever. And also don’t forget that Boris was not one, he wanted to be in power and adored, he was all for printing more money and handing it out.. which is the reason he’s been tossed to the lions.
I personally hate the spectacle of people rushing in to kick those who are down. It’s a horrid animal instinct
The last and only prime minister to be a caretaker after losing was Churchill. And we know how Boris tries to mirror him. In the meantime the Durham Poilice are still sitting on their hands vis a vis the FPN’s in Starmer and Raynor. I think it’s time they re- released Anarchy in the UK

Treetops05

Thank goodness he's gone - praying the next PM knows what ethics and morals mean.

Don’t hold your breath…

easybe and nankate I am in your camp. What is it with the conservative party that they have to be so back stabbing instead of supportive, Those that have resigned have only done so because they want to be able to put themselves forward for the new conservative leader and therefore PM. Boris has had the hardest job of any other PM, apart from perhaps during and immediately after the war years, and I personally thank goodness he was the one dealing with it because I don't think anyone else could have done the job so well. The press win again. Now I know how Prince Harry feels about the poisonous british press. By the way, anyone know how the investigation into the Kier Starmer Party is going, oh no, the press are more insterested in stabbing Boris in the back.

I don’t think that will happen Coco51. According to the FT significant numbers of Tory MP’s are opposed to this and want Boris to go now and get the Queen to appoint a caretaker PM whilst they sort out contenders for the leadership. In those circumstances the caretaker PM should be Dominic Raab.

yes, He's resigning as Conservative leader but NOT as PM until autumn.

Jeez - he is proposing to stay until there is a new Tory leader but that means we’ll have no government, because very few MPs will work for him!

Thank goodness he's gone - praying the next PM knows what ethics and morals mean.

Quite so, Maybee, the oven-ready deal was perhaps the first of the blatant lies - oh no, the second - before that was the £3m a week for the NHS and the Boris Bus.

Brexit hasn’t been done though. Ireland still hasn’t been sorted out? The oven ready deal was another blatant lie.

I tend to agree with you Easybee and NanKate. I always predicted however that once Brexit was done the Tory party would ditch Boris, but then along came Covid so his stay was extended. He hasn’t exactly helped himself though, and they have all been ready to seek out anything to pounce on and have found plenty. Dominic Cummings is gloating, odious little man.

easyBee I thought I was the only person on GN who had some sympathy for Boris, it’s a relief to find a buddy. His fellow conservatives were surrounding him with their knives out at the ready. What a nasty business politics is.

eazybee

I am very sorry if this is true.
I admire Boris Johnson's courage and think members of the Conservative party have behaved despicably, provoked in the main by self -interest. They will be defeated at the next election, and the alliances that follows will spell disaster for this country.
The left- wing and Remainer attacks were only to be expected.

Which left-wing and Remainer attacks? This is entirely self-inflicted by people who are very far from being left-wing and aren't "Remainers".

I do wish the ex-pro-Brexit voters would get over themselves. We left. The only ones now talking about it are those who wanted that. Is that weird or what? We have to move on, people.

Just how long can you winge because you got what you wanted. Absolutely no one defined what Brexit meant other than leaving the EU. Stop throwing mud at those YOU define as "left-wing" and "Remainer" but who you seem to know even less about than you do about "Brexit".

There is nothing for us to "remain" in now. An EU containing the UK does not exist. Again, we have to move forward. That includes those who enjoyed their revolt against the vast majority who didn't vote to leave.

Mordaunt is favourite. Boris will stay on as caretaker pm until October according to FT. Statement at lunch time.

British media reports embattled leader has agreed to step down after facing growing party rebellion. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2022/7/7/uk-political-crisis-boris-johnson-expected-to-quit-as-pm

It's a world leading top story in Aljazeera.

Don't forget Peppa the Pig.