LONDON — Boris Johnson has finally been persuaded to resign, after more than one third of his own government colleagues — including a clutch of top Cabinet ministers — walked out and told him to go.
His defiant attitude provoked an astonishing — and at times farcical — political stalemate. In the end, even people he’d just hired as replacements for ministers who had quit themselves decided they must also resign.
Johnson’s dramatic exit brings to an end the most colorful and arguably the most influential frontline political career since Margaret Thatcher’s time at the top. It also leaves the field of candidates to replace him as Conservative leader wide open – there is no obvious successor and both Britain and the Tory party face months’ more uncertainty....
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