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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 mini ....
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 ....
That caused boris johnson to plunge in the polls. it emerged that behind the scenes there had been multiple parties breaking lockdown restrictions at a time when the rest of the country was taking extreme precautions to make sure that covid didn t spread and of course this is one of the countries where more than 100,000 people died from that disease. it had one of the worst legacies at one point, mortality rate from covid, and it turned out that the parties had happened. boris johnson had said that he wasn t at any of them but then his wife was fined. so the question is whether or not the prime minister could be tresed and he also sent out some of his own ministers over the course of the weekend to defend what he did and didn t know about the latest scandal and it turned out that they felt they had been lied to as well. and so whether it is covid, whether it is partygate, now this latest scandal, big question mark is whether or not boris johnson has been competent ....
and also a representative of the kind of conservative that took hold in the united states too. and other parts of the world. some people have compared him to the former president donald trump. and so it is a little like that reagan/thatcher moment in the 80s. and so he has embodied this version of politics overseas and thousa now he s fallen to power. and he has had nine lives no question. and he is a bit of a showman. so i wonder how it will play out. well, i don t know how he will handle this. he is someone who is made for the television age and he is a showman. but this has been a dramatic fall from power and the set of scandals that in the end he couldn t survive, more controversial than some of his more controversial policies such ....
Today, he has sort of accepted had now. but indicating that he would stay on in a caretaker type role until the autumn. until the fall. and it is really not clear that he has even the remotest level of support for that. the indications are that he needs to go sooner, that the party need to put in a caretaker. and that seems to be the question here at the moment, who would the caretaker prime minister be in that period. and internationally would they follow in boris johnson s foot steps as being a staunch ally of ukraine, close part partner to the united states. answer probably yes. will they continue a fractious relationship over northern ireland differences? quite possibly yes. but the domestic question of course is who will be the most acceptable person for the party to get them through this period when the opposition appear to be speaking about the need for a complete clearout of conservatives and having a general election. so bumpy road for sure. ....