
So that’s it, he’s resigned — though not before more than 50 of his MPs beat him to it first.
Really though, it was obvious Boris Johnson wouldn’t go down without a fight. In many ways the Prime Minister’s last 48 hours have been a fitting reflection for his time in office: tumultuous, a rollercoaster and sometimes hanging on a knife edge — if we’re talking about his near-death brush with Covid in those first few months of the pandemic. Remember that?