was elected by the conservative party. i have spoken to his majesty the king to notify him thati i m resigning as leader of the conservative party. it was just yesterday that truss fiercely declared before parliament that she was, quote, a fighter, not a quitter. but the reaction and the fallout from her government s handling of the current economic and energy crisis in the u.k. clearly forced her hand. truss will now be the shortest serving prime minister in british history. let s get straight over to scott mcclain. he s outside of the prime minister s residence in london. so, scott, what now? reporter: if you ask the opposition labor party, there ought to be a general election but the conservative party has zero incentive to actually call a general election. because if you consult the polls, you will find that the conservative party were an election be held today would be absolutely trounced by the labor party. labor likely getting twice or por than twice the share of t
separate lockdown parties, a half a dozen of them were investigated. some of them were leaving drinks, one of them involved 200 people invited to bring their own booze. the report found johnson gave unsustainable interpretations of the very rules he helped to right. for example, he insisted and continues to insist in some cases that some of those parties were essential for work purposes. it s actually tomorrow when the british parliament will vote on whether to approve this report s findings and the punishment it entails, which would have been 90 days suspended from parliament as an mp. boris johnson has already resigned as a back bench mp. he called the whole process a witch hunt. alex? we all remember how dark and scary the mood was at the end of 2020. apparently not at british
por than twice the share of the vote as the conservative party. and so there is very few scenarios if any that the conservatives would be able to hold on to power after a general election. what we know for certain, kate, is that there will be a new prime minister, liz truss is still the prime minister until the new one is chosen. and that leader should be chosen by the end of next week. now, in theory, this should work with party mp s whittling down the potential candidates to just two and then letting the party membership vote. perhaps, though, party may be a little bit skittish about doing that considering what happened last time, which was they got liz truss was much more ideology and less pragmatic than the moment seemed to have called for. either way, the party is keen to do this quickly. this is the chair of the back bench 1992 committee of back