Boris Johnson announces his resignation, pending the 'tories' choose a new leader

"No one is indispensable in politics," he alleges, in a message to the nation in which he does not set deadlines for his departure

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, has assumed this Thursday that "clearly" his own colleagues believe that "the Conservative Party should have a new leader" and, therefore, the country "a new prime minister", in the announcement of a resignation that remains at the expense of the calendar to elect his successor, which will be announced next week.

"No one is indispensable in politics," said Johnson, in a speech at the gate of Downing Street in which he justified that, if he has clung to office for weeks, it is because he understood that it was his "obligation" and that in this form responded to the mandate obtained at the polls at the end of 2019.

Johnson, who has given thanks for having had "the best job in the world", explained that his tenure in office was not something strictly "personal", but that he wanted to "keep what he promised", although finally the pressure has come from all possible fronts.

In this sense, he explained that for weeks he has striven to defend that it was a "mistake" to change the government in a period marked by economic uncertainty and the war in Ukraine, among other challenges of a time that he has classified as "complicated".

The still prime minister, in fact, has undertaken this very Thursday a remodeling of his cabinet with which he aspires to endure until the succession is completed. According to the BBC, Johnson hopes to continue until the fall, although in recent hours voices have emerged that urge the process to be accelerated to avoid months of interim.

Among his achievements, he has highlighted the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, tax cuts or having "recovered the sovereignty" of the United Kingdom, alluding to the process of leaving the European Union for which he himself campaigned before the referendum. June 2016. "I know we are going to be the most prosperous town in Europe," he emphasized.

Looking to the future, he has promised to support "as far as possible" his replacement, whom he has wished success in his future work. Whoever he is, Johnson has been confident that the interests of the citizenry will continue to be "priority".

The person who replaces Johnson will be able to continue governing thanks to the comfortable majority that the Conservative Party has in the House of Commons, so in principle an early election is not expected. The next general elections should be held in January 2025.