Members of the public couldn't resist posing with the waxwork that had been positioned outside Jobcentre Plus
Boris Johnson has been trolled by Madame Tussauds in Blackpool after a waxwork figure of the departing Prime Minister was swiftly moved to the local job centre.
Meanwhile, Madame Tussauds in London updated its 10 Downing Street display with a sign saying “vacancy”. The display now shows the newly resigned Tory leader standing next to a Downing Street sign smiling at the door to Number 10. A new Tory leader will now be elected who will replace Mr Johnson in No 10. Mr Johnson intends to remain in Downing Street until his successor is elected, but he faces resistance to that plan from within his own party and the Opposition.
But in a sign of the resentment he feels about being forced from office, less than three years after a landslide election win, Mr Johnson said: “In the last few days, I tried to persuade my colleagues that it would be eccentric to change governments when we’re delivering so much and when we have such a vast mandate and when we’re actually only a handful of points behind in the polls, even in mid-term after quite a few months of pretty relentless sledging and when the economic scene is so...
He said his successor’s priorities should include “cutting taxes because that is the way to generate the growth and the income we need to pay the great public services”. "To that new leader, I say, whoever he or she may be, I say: ‘I will give you as much support as I can’.”
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