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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
the last 24-36 hours that boris johnson, who originally said he was entrenched and wasn t going anywhere, you would have to remove him with blood on his hands, was the analogy, what is leading him to resign? nigel: catastrophic loss of confidence from those who voted in 2019 and those who make up the government and run the country. resigning to a point he did not have a lot of men and women with him to take jobs to keep the country running. i ve never seen anything like it. i ve seen people s reputation fall and rise in short periods of time. these are huge events and the old story of the straw that broke the camel s back. there have been serious upsets with johnson not telling the truth over the party while the rest of us couldn t go visit our grandmothers. many time what he said has been found not true. in the end, it was serious allegations about sexual impropriety and he knew the truth about the individual and did not take care of it. this is it, we cannot go on with it