{"id":182424,"date":"2022-09-06T11:39:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T08:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=182424"},"modified":"2022-09-06T11:39:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T08:39:23","slug":"uks-johnson-bows-out-as-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/uks-johnson-bows-out-as-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s Johnson bows out as PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-182425\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-09-06T073426Z_702802096_RC2JBW9YZI67_RTRMADP_3_BRITAIN-POLITICS-LEADERSHIP.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-09-06T073426Z_702802096_RC2JBW9YZI67_RTRMADP_3_BRITAIN-POLITICS-LEADERSHIP.webp 770w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-09-06T073426Z_702802096_RC2JBW9YZI67_RTRMADP_3_BRITAIN-POLITICS-LEADERSHIP-300x200.webp 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-09-06T073426Z_702802096_RC2JBW9YZI67_RTRMADP_3_BRITAIN-POLITICS-LEADERSHIP-768x512.webp 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-09-06T073426Z_702802096_RC2JBW9YZI67_RTRMADP_3_BRITAIN-POLITICS-LEADERSHIP-696x464.webp 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/2022-09-06T073426Z_702802096_RC2JBW9YZI67_RTRMADP_3_BRITAIN-POLITICS-LEADERSHIP-630x420.webp 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom\u2019s Prime Minister\u00a0Boris Johnson\u00a0has left his Downing Street office for the last time before heading to Scotland to formally offer his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n<p>The British leader, who announced his intention to step down two months ago, is expected to meet with the queen later on Tuesday at her Balmoral estate to begin the transfer of power to\u00a0Liz Truss.<\/p>\n<p>Truss, who was named leader of the ruling Conservative Party on Monday, will be appointed prime minister during her own audience with the queen a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking outside No 10 Downing Street, Johnson\u00a0said\u00a0his policies had given the country the economic strength to help people weather the energy crisis before he signed off with his typical bluster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am like one of those booster rockets that has fulfilled its function,\u201d Johnson said before getting into a car and leaving the gates of Downing Street for the last time as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will now be gently re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down invisibly in some remote and obscure corner of the Pacific.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Truss, 47, takes office a day after the Conservative Party\u2019s 172,000 members elected her to lead their party.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday afternoon, she is expected to make her first speech as leader of a nation of 67 million people anxious about soaring energy bills and a looming winter of recession and labour unrest.<\/p>\n<p>Those problems have festered for the past two months because Johnson had no authority to make major policy decisions after announcing his plan to step down.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Conservative Party members on Monday, Truss promised to \u201cdeliver\u201d on the economy, the energy crisis and the overstretched healthcare system, though she offered few specifics on\u00a0her policies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UK's next PM: Johnson's last speech before formally resigning\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IyJ4W6H1dNc\" width=\"770\" height=\"434\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom\u2019s Prime Minister\u00a0Boris Johnson\u00a0has left his Downing Street office for the last time before heading to Scotland to formally offer his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II. The British leader, who announced his intention to step down two months ago, is expected to meet with the queen later on Tuesday at her Balmoral estate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182428,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182424\/revisions\/182428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}