Boris Johnson Quits as Pressure From Ministerial Resignations Mounts

“It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister,” Johnson said in a broadcast from outside his Downing Street home. “As we’ve seen at Westminster, the herd instinct is powerful. When the herd moves, it moves. And, my friends, in politics no one is remotely indispensable.”