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The Prime Minster has announced he will step down from office.
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Key Events
- Boris Johnson to resign, but remain caretaker until the autumn to allow a leadership contest.
- He is due to give a statement to the country today.
- Over 50 ministers have resigned over the last day after sexual assault allegations emerged involving the Deputy Chief Whip.
- Foreign Secretary Liz Truss cutting short trip to G20 meeting in Indonesia - will make statement
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer appears to be insisiting that Boris Johnson leave now, rather than remain.
Is threatening a vote of no confidence.
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Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald said that Boris Johnson’s interactions with Ireland have been “wholly negative”, saying he will “not be missed”.
“Under his leadership we have seen an attack on the Good Friday Agreement, threat after threat to break international law,” Ms McDonald said in Dublin.
“Boris Johnson’s government brought austerity to the people of the North of Ireland and, of course, he championed and brought Brexit, the disaster that is Brexit, to all of us.
“It needs to be stated clearly that whoever succeeds Boris Johnson as Prime Minister needs to change direction and change tact.
“We need the (Northern Ireland) Assembly and the Executive established without delay.
“We need a government that delivers for people and we need it very quickly, we are in the grip of a cost-of-living crisis.
“We need a British government that respects international law, fulfils its obligations under the Good Friday Agreement and understands, without any shadow of a doubt, that Ireland will not be the collateral for the Tory Brexit.
“Boris Johnson’s interactions with Ireland have been wholly negative and he will not be missed.”
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