Boris Johnson: End the clap! As predicted by British media, the British Prime Minister has resigned on Thursday, July 7, from the head of Conservative Party. Boris Johnson was facing a political crisis unprecedented in its magnitude, which saw the resignation of over 50 government members in record time. The British media had fun with it for days.
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Boris Johnson, who was deaf to all calls for his resignation within his party and his own party, gave the impression of a man "desperately clinging on to power", as the Guardian reported. The weekly "The Economist", which ironically relates to "the fall of a clown", also had a vitriolic side.
The BBC is undoubtedly the source of the most amusing mockery. The end credits of his program "Newsnight" were replaced with the names and addresses of fifty ministers who had resigned from his cabinet on "Bitter Sweet Symphony".
The continuous news channels showed a count of the departures, but the BBC displayed an infographic that highlighted the most frequently used words in resignation letters to Downing Street. Journalists joked with Larry the Downing Street cat and asked him if he had resigned... This sequence was widely covered across all channels.
Boris Johnson addressed the nation this Thursday noon to resign as leader of Conservative Party. According to BBC, Johnson will still be in charge of the government until the fall when he can elect his successor as head of the party.
Keir Starmer, Opposition Leader, called Boris Johnson's departure "good information". However, "we don’t need a change of leadership in the Tories." He argued that we need a genuine change in government.
