to the country today, this as johnson has been rocked by a new wave of resignations. joining us now from london, nada bashir. good morning, we ve been following these developments the past few hours. what do we know so far about the reports that johnson will step down? reporter: good morning, christine. just gone 10:00 a.m. here in london and clearly a lot has happened. boris johnson now expected to stand down from his post as prime minister. we are expecting him according to downing street to make a statement in the coming hours. we re also waiting for that lectern to come out here to address the press, give that statement announcing his resignation. we understand that he spoke with the chairman of the 1922 committee, that is the committee of back bench members of parliament here in the conservative party who would oversee the process of both the prime minister resigning and of course that potential vote of confidence. but it hasn t reached that stage. the prime minister n
prime minister. so there are questions around what the next steps would be. and of course who the next prime minister would be. that continues to be quite a division within the conservative party. so not a clear frontrunner. there are several senior ministers, secretaries, former chancellors, those names going around the newspapers, former health secretary, but there doesn t seem to be one name over p overpowe overpowering the others at this stage. and so the question is what will the prime minister say in his public address later today and whether or not he can come to an agreement with the 1922 committee and with his cabinet officers about what the next steps would look like for him and for the conservative party. so interesting so many of the names don t resonate with the public maybe the way boris job son s name, but he is a larger