can. and to you, the british public, i know that there will be many people who are relieved and perhaps quite a few who also will be disappointed and i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up the best job in the world. but them s the breaks. remarkable developments, just three years after his party won a huge mandate in parliament, it is important to note that johnson gave no timetable for exactly when he will leave office, saying that will be announced next week. let s bring in cnn s nic robertson, outside number 10 downing street. so tell us, first of all, your reaction to johnson s words as he finally under intense pressure, we should note, from inside his own party, to step down. this feels like a place holding resignation and less a resignation from power, because it is behind the doors there, appointing replacement ministers for all those who have quit. more a he is resigned to the fact that his party no longer wants him. last night he was talking about and ev
faced an avalanche of resignations of top cabinet members over the last 48 hours following multiple scandals for his government though he didn t directly mention those in his departure speech. have a listen. and i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up the best job in the world. but them s the breaks. johnson giving no timetable for when he will leave office, saying only that it will be announced next week. let se bring in nic robertson who is live outside downing street. how will this work? what happens next? and how quickly could there be a move? the immediate sense of what is happening is being played out right behind me right now. cabinet members walking in for a cabinet session with boris johnson. the attorney general walked up the street, just gone through the door. she s already put her hat in the ring to be one of the contenders to become next prime minister. she just smiled when a colleague asked her that question. boris government is now a caretaker pr
to deliver that mandate in person was not just because i wanted to do so, but because i felt it was my job, my duty, my obligation to you to continue to do what we promised in 2019. johnson is vowing to stay on until conservatives pick a new leader. the brash prime minister desperately tried to stay in power but dozens of his top ministers resigned in the last 48 hours, calling on him to step down. johnson survived a no confidence vote last month over the revelation that there were parties being held at downing street during covid lockdowns. there were also recent revelations that johnson knew about sexual misconduct allegations against the conserve thetive lawmaker before he promoted him. at the center of the controversies that brought him down, concerns over the prime minister s integrity. let s take you now to 10 downing street in london with cnn s north carolina robertson. he s got breaking news. nick, you were there when johnson announced that he was resigning. he did
with police. we want to willing our viewers in the united states and the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. we begin with the political upheaval in britain. prime minister johnson resigning after a truly historic revolt in the conservative party over a series of ethics scandals. max foster is outside parliament for us. a seismic shakeup for the uk. walk us through the dramatic developments. reporter: wolf, you can say that johnson can claim notable wins. he was the man most responsible, the person most responsible for bringing the uk out of the european union. he was responsible for that. there was the vaccine rollout, him supporting ukraine and there were scandals and every time he managed to mishandle them. he said there with respect parties in downing street in lockdown and had to apologize and say there were. latest a member of the government accused of sexual assault. johnson s office said he didn t know about it but he did know about it. that wa
where to begin. it s a great way to start a press conference. this was after wave of scandal. the straw that broke the camel s back was johnson s decision to promote beneficial facing sexual misconduct allegations. his allocation lease one of america s closest allies in the state of political turmoil. we ll show you live look at a moment from 10 downing street were about 15 minutes ago they made the amount announcement. there was a chorus of cheers and cat calls that came down from > it s really not the world of the parliamentary conservative party that there should be a new leader of the party and therefore a new prime minister. the process of choosing that new leader should begin now. foreign affairs correspondent. dano that s right it s almost over. conservative u.k. prime minister boris johnson stepping down as party leader which eventually lead to him departing as the p.m. he broke the news in front of his famous office home after an amazing 36 hours in u.k. politi