Statements were drafted, alliances were sought, and the PM announced he would quit as days of pressure came to a head UK politics live: latest updates When Nadhim Zahawi released his statement calling for the prime minister to go early on Thursday morning, his allies believed there was a risk […]

The prime minister is variously thanked for this time in office and urged to be gone as soon as possible in today’s front pages The chaotic choreography of Boris Johnson’s sort-of resignation as prime minister delivered some contrasting front pages on Friday. The Guardian has a poster-style front page with […]

But most in the know say the soon-to-be former PM is unlikely to fall on hard times The day’s political developments – live Boris Johnson is not a man currently without, as he might put it himself, a slew of significant botherations. But his biggest problem now, according to his […]

A defiant prime minister may try to hold a general election to buy himself more time UK politics: live updates Boris Johnson already knew more of his cabinet ministers wanted him gone before he went to face his MPs at prime minister’s questions on Wednesday. Michael Gove, the levelling up […]

Word from No 10 bunker goes out to the Tory trenches but even the diehards know that the party’s one-time hero has to go A blood-curdling vow to fight to the death, despair among Tory grandees at the impending loss of their champion, and incredulity that Boris Johnson is still […]

Downing Street source says ‘he wants to stay and fight’ despite interventions from ministers including Shapps and Patel • Politics live blog Boris Johnson was locked in an unprecedented standoff with his own cabinet on Wednesday, as he clung to power after an extraordinary day that saw more than 40 […]

Keir Starmer was in lethal form against the PM and Sajid Javid, despite oratorical deficiencies, was hardly less deadly The Sky News helicopter hovered above Westminster. The constant thrum an insistent death knell for any incumbent prime minister. Down below, a steady stream of junior ministers and parliamentary private secretaries […]

As the PM struggles to keep his job, we look at the rules and conventions that apply • All the latest developments – live It seems likely, perhaps even inevitable, that Boris Johnson will resign as prime minister or be forced out within days. Here is what could follow. Continue […]

Over the last few days, ministers have tired of defending PM over Pincher while even MPs in safe seats feel doomed Politics live blog Rishi Sunak called the prime minister only moments before he went public with his decision to quit. He had told only his closest aides about his […]

The front pages are almost unanimous in declaring that the prime minister’s time in No 10 could be up soon After limping along in the wake of the Partygate investigation, multiple sex scandals and successive policy failures, Boris Johnson is approaching the endgame of his time in Downing Street, according […]