Boris makes his Brexit
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It’s official: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has resigned. We review the scandals that led Johnson here and try to understand what happens next for his party. Then we discuss WNBA star Brittney Griner’s guilty plea and why it’s not surprising.
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After a week of government resignations, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Thursday that he is stepping down as the leader of the Conservative Party.
The calls for Johnson to resign came after the discovery that the prime minister had promoted a lawmaker to a position of power, despite knowing of accusations of sexual misconduct against the appointee. After a long string of scandals throughout Johnson’s term, cabinet members said they could no longer trust the prime minister. So we asked London bureau chief William Booth: Where does this leave the future of the British government?
Later in the show, Dave Sheinin, a sports reporter for The Post, breaks down the guilty plea of WNBA star Brittney Griner. Griner, who remains detained in Russia on a drug charge, submitted the plea in court Thursday. Meanwhile, pressure mounts on the Biden administration to make larger strides to get her back to the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, it's official. |
| 0:04.6 | Boris Johnson has resigned as the British Prime Minister. |
| 0:08.1 | Good afternoon, everybody. |
| 0:11.8 | Good afternoon. |
| 0:13.3 | It's great here. |
| 0:15.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:16.3 | It is clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new |
| 0:24.0 | leader of that party and therefore a new Prime Minister. |
| 0:28.5 | This announcement came after a week of government resignations that rocked the Conservative Party |
| 0:35.6 | in the UK and Bill Booth, the London Beirutie for the Post, he was watching all of this |
| 0:41.4 | play out. |
| 0:43.4 | I was surprised because I'm sort of the dumb American at the show and I've always watched |
| 0:48.5 | Boris now for the last few years. |
| 0:50.0 | I thought this guy is so cunning, he's so smart, he's so relentless, he's so self-promoting, |
| 0:56.5 | he's so sort of greedy for power that he'll find a way out of this. |
| 1:01.1 | He's as slippery as a bucket of eels and he will get out of this one as he has repeatedly |
| 1:07.9 | in the past. |
| 1:09.2 | But I was wrong the day unfolded and it was just too much. |
| 1:14.3 | His position was completely unsustainable. |
| 1:17.7 | He had to go. |
| 1:23.6 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm Martine Powers, it's Thursday, July 7th. |
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