The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson is set to resign today after a fatal invasion of concessions in protest over his leadership.
With eight ministers, including two secretaries of state, withdrawing in the last two hours, an unusual and powerless Johnson was set to stoop to the inevitable and announce he was stepping down later, media reports said.
Johnson had until now withheld to stoop to tension to resign, saying that he has a 14-million vote referendum from the British voters who cast their ballots for him and his party in the last general election in 2019.
But his authority has vaporized quickly over the last 48 hours, with longtime colleagues and supporters telling him to go.
There were so many resignations and it became doubtful that Johnson and his aides could fill the spots quickly enough to keep the government going.
Ministers in charge of security, the courts, technology, education, finance, Northern Ireland, science have all left their jobs.
Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis was among those who resigned from his position in the Cabinet on Thursday morning. He said that the British government requires “honesty, integrity and mutual respect” and it is “now past the point of no return.”