Speaker John Boehner resigns from US congress

The leader of the US House of Representatives, speaker John Boehner, will resign from Congress at the end of October.

The shock announcement came one day after a high point of Boehner’s career —an historic speech by Pope Francis to the Republican-controlled congress at his request.

A focus of conservatives’ complaints, Boehner “just does not want to become the issue”, said Republican John Mica.