Boris Johnson has resigned with immediate effect !

The departure of Johnson and Dorries can only be good for the House of Commons. Come on Rees-Mogg, follow your leader! Liz Truss, take the hint!

Oh dear! I am so upset. We don’t get the right to see him be sacked by his colleagues when the Privileges committee confirm he lied. What an absolute whimp. As always it’s everyone else’s fault but him. He has trashed UK democracy and his honorific stain on good name will take too long to purge.

So - Sunak has bent over backwards to accommodate Johnson’s honours list in the hope of appeasing him.

So what does Johnson do? Resign and almost ensure that the subsequent bye-election will be lost by the Tories.

A b………d to the end.

PS Richard Murphy is reporting that he has flown to Africa? Minus his wife who is imminent in giving birth to his 10th? Child

It was announced on R4 any questions and a cheer went up. But I presume the enquiry should still go on?

He’s almost certainly done it for that.

However 👏

Does this mean that he avoids scrutiny by the select committee? If so it is outrageous.

So the dead man walking has finally accepted that in political terms, he is a corpse. Or has he? After all, his capacity for self-delusion is second only to Trump's...

Just watching the Trump indictment , so missed this, but it occurs to me that the USA rule of law is so much more robust than ours. Johnson should be also facing charges relating to much more, in particular his Italian away job, where it is recorded that he took classified documents with him.

To be fair, it was DH who wondered about the general election first.

Perhaps he'll go for Nadine's safe seat. I'm sure he has an agenda.

So are he and Ms Dorries trying to force a general election so that he can be back as Leader of the Opposition? Just wondering...

I wonder if he's planning to stand in Dorries' seat!

That 24,000 majority.

Nadine Dorries has reported that “something significant happened” in the hours before her sudden resignation today.

And he’s still lying. He has not been forced out by the Privileges Committee. Their recommendation would have gone to a full vote in the Commons.

Good, is all I can say without being reported and banned.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s landed some other lucrative deal.

You beat me to it Grannynannywanny, by a minute!

Resigned immediately after seeing House of Commons partygate report.

Not sure whether it has anything to do with Nadine Dorries sudden exit. She had anyway already announced that she would be standing down at the next election

So, 2 bye-elections coming up!

For Boris to go - just like that - I cannot wait to read the report!

I hope not! His wife is expecting their third baby imminently. Although as OH just said, that wouldn’t stop him.