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
we do know it can be a lengthy process, any mp, conservative mp that gets more than eight other mps to support them will put their name in the contest for prime minister, and it will then be whittled down amongst mps, conservative mps, they will all get a vote, generally they vote once a week and it is whittled down person by person, some volunteer to drop out, many drop out by the votes, until there are just two conservative mps left standing for the prime minister s job. then it goes to the conservative membership, hundreds of thousands of people across the country, who will vote by mail, by post. so a very long and slow process. it really appears boris johnson today saying he s going is really digging in, still, in a way and holding on until the party can actually replace him, which could be many, many weeks, many months away, and this is at a time when his credibility in the party has gone, this morning ministers were still resigning and it is not clear if it is even going to be at
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