appointed a new cabinet, but sir keir starmer has said he must step down immediately or labour will try to bring a no confidence vote in parliament. he needs to go completely none of this nonsense about clinging on for a few months. he s inflicted lies, fraud and chaos in the country. we ll have all the latest reaction from here in westminster as well as from our correspondents and voters around the uk. good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. borisjohnson has resigned as conservative leader. despite him saying only last night that he would stay in office, more cabinet level and minister resignations piled on the pressure, and around 9am this morning, the bbc learned that he would step down. but he would not step down as prime minister, he would stay on in office until autumn when a successor is chosen. within the last half hour, the prime minister made a statement outside downing street. let s hear what he said. in the last few days, i ve tried to persuade my co
martin reynolds from february 2020 and dominic cummings saying lots of science containment has failed and we should now expect a proper pandemic and even to have an update from the prime minister. if we go over the page we see martin reynolds saying we have scheduled ministerial meeting on heathrow first thing so cannot have a meeting tomorrow but will look to fix it later and then says perhaps we could cover it at cabinet or at the end of the national security council. and then if you skip down a couple of entries, later that morning we see martin reynolds perhaps by that stage has spoken to the cabinet secretary seen marc would prefer to do it at cabinet and makes a point cabinet would be better as it includes a wider cast with including health and so on and we see the response from dominic cummings seeing cabinet leaks and if it leaks out it will be from some fool so that it out it will be from some fool so thatitis out it will be from some fool so that it is a bad idea. t