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Re: The future of television
Has Johnson actually resigned?
https://www.newstatesman.com/politic...prime-minister
Quote:
The most important line Boris Johnson uttered in his quasi-resignation speech outside No 10 this afternoon was this: “I have today appointed a cabinet to serve, as I will, until a new leader is in place.”
Johnson is seeking to stay on through the summer – indefinitely, even, as the timetable for the election of a new leader has not been confirmed. He has not tendered his resignation as Prime Minister.
He did concede that “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”, and he agreed that “the process of choosing that new leader should begin now”. Although that choice has been taken out of his hands by the party itself: he will soon be removed as Tory party leader, whether he wants to be or not.
But he can, technically, be deposed as Tory leader and remain in office. He will not be removed from No 10 until he tenders his resignation as Prime Minister, or until he loses a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons (the last PM to lose such a vote was Labour’s Jim Callaghan in March 1979). Johnson will not, like Donald Trump, attempt to stay in power once the Tory party does select a new leader, but he has notably chosen not to tender his resignation as Prime Minister until it does.
It is not clear if that position can hold, but by not resigning he is forcing his party’s MPs to remove him in the Commons if they object.
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Last edited by Hugh; 07-07-2022 at 17:00.
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