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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

UK’s Boris Johnson on the Brink as Ministers Quit

In this file photo taken on March 29, 2022 Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives to attend a Service of Thanksgiving for Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in central London. (AFP)

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was clinging to power on Wednesday, gravely wounded by the resignation of ministers who said he was not fit to govern and with a growing number of lawmakers calling for him to go.

Johnson's finance and health secretaries quit on Tuesday, along with several in more junior roles, saying they could no longer stay in government after the latest in a series of scandals blighted his administration.

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