‘I want you to know how sad I am to be giving up the best job in the world. But them’s the breaks,’ Boris Johnson says in resignation speech at 10 Downing Street.
Boris Johnson announces his resignation outside 10 Downing Street on July 7 2022 in London, England. Picture: LEON NEAL/GETTY IMAGES
Here is the opening text of a speech he made outside his official Downing Street residence announcing his resignation: “So I want to say to the millions of people who voted for us in 2019, many of them voting Conservative for the first time: ‘Thank you for that incredible mandate, the biggest Conservative majority since 1987, the biggest share of the vote since 1979.’
“And of course, I’m immensely proud of the achievements of this government: from getting Brexit done to settling our relations with the continent for over half a century. Reclaiming the power for this country to make its own laws in parliament, getting us all through the pandemic, delivering the fastest vaccine rollout in Europe, the fastest exit from lockdown, and in the last few months, leading the West in standing up to Putin’s aggression in Ukraine.
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