Live as Boris Johnson agrees to resign
Boris Johnson has confirmed he is standing down as Tory leader but will stay on until a new leader is chosen.
Expectation has been building for days that Johnson would resign, with dozens of resignations from the Government includingand Sajid Javid. And today the newly appointed Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has publicly told the Prime Minister he has to go. He wrote to Boris Johnson saying "This is not sustainable and will only get worse" and has since been replaced as Chancellor by Kit Malthouse.
Other cabinet posts have been filled with a "caretaker" government set to keep going until the new Tory leader is confirmed. James Cleverly is education secretary while Greg Clark has been appointed Levelling Up Secretary, after Michael Gove was sacked.
It also comes just a month after the Prime Minister narrowly survived a vote of no confidence and just a few weeks after
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