Boris Johnson has decided to go but it wasn’t the opposition or the public who sounded the death knell for the soon-to-be ex-Prime Minister.
A full-scale revolt of unprecedented proportion by his own Ministers and MPs finally forced him to walk the plank and jump into the murky depths below.
In a lunch time statement outside 10 Downing Street he told waiting media "when the herd moves, it moves" and conceded "them's the breaks".
