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Resigned

Boris Johnson

The party goes on without him

AFTER MONTHS OF ESCALATING SCANDALS, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on July 7 that he would step down as leader of his ruling Conservative Party, and ultimately the country.

It was not the political end that Johnson had imagined. In December 2019, he delivered his party

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