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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom & Lizzy Buchan

All the Tories resigning to oust Boris Johnson as more than 50 quit government

A delegation of Cabinet ministers went to No10 last night to tell Boris Johnson to resign after a slew of devastating resignations.

But astonishingly the Prime Minister clung on, sacking Michael Gove who told him to quit and sparking another flurry of desertions. Finally on Thursday morning the deluded PM saw the light and said he'd quit.

Between 6pm on Tuesday and 10am on Thursday 57 MPs resigned from the government - 28 ministers, 22 parliamentary private secretaries, four trade envoys and three Tory vice chairs.

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