British Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed Wednesday to press on in his role, despite more than a dozen MPs including two senior cabinet members resigning from the government in the last 24 hours.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Wednesday rejected calls by the Labour opposition to call a snap general election, after more than two dozen ministers quit his government.
Dowden is the first Cabinet minister to step down amid ongoing Tory backbench discontent over Johnson’s leadership following scathing findings of the partygate report last month, which prompted 148 Tory MPs to oppose the PM in a vote of no confidence earlier this month.
It was during his visit to India in April that Johnson and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that the negotiating teams on both sides must work towards a Diwali timeline for the completion of a draft-free trade agreement.