LONDON — Boris Johnson is standing down as U.K. prime minister after a wave of government resignations and a revolt from his own Cabinet left him unable to carry on.
He will stay on as a caretaker leader while the race to replace him gets going — but critics in his own party want him out of office sooner.
Johnson — who spearheaded the campaign for Brexit and led his party to an emphatic election victory in December 2019 — made an at-times defiant statement outside No.10 Downing Street, as he teed up a battle to succeed him as head of the governing Conservative party.
“It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister”, Johnson conceded....
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