‘Them’s the breaks’: Boris Johnson resigns 'giving up the best job in the world' 

British prime minister Boris Johnson reads a statement outside 10 Downing Street, London, formally resigning as Conservative Party leader after ministers and MPs made clear his position was untenable. He will remain as Prime Minister until a successor is in place. 

Boris Johnson quit as Conservative Party leader after admitting he failed to persuade his British cabinet colleagues that he could fight on.

The British prime minister said it was “eccentric” to change governments at this stage but “I regret not to have been successful in those arguments”.