This is a daily signal bonus episode for July 7th, I'm Virginia Allen.

It is clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader

of that party and therefore a new Prime Minister.

That is British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday announcing his resignation as the

Prime Minister of Great Britain and herewith us to explain why he is stepping down is the Heritage

Foundation's Senior Research Fellow in Anglo-American Relations in the Margaret Fattress Center for Freedom,

Ted Brumand, Ted. Thanks for being here.

Great to be with you and your listeners.

So let's start with a big question.

Why did Boris Johnson step down?

First short-term causes, the Conservative Government that he led has been battered by a series of

scandals over the past several months, really almost the past half year.

This really began early in 2022.

The Conservative Government had imposed very harsh lockdown measures in the UK as a response to COVID,

including closing their favourite institution of the British, their pubs and preventing people from

going out and getting a drink.

Behind the scenes, unfortunately, Boris Johnson's staff and ministers were throwing drinks,

parties, and staying up all hours.

You know, when it's not a good look, when people can't go out and get a pint of beer at the pub

and you're busy holding drinks parties, people are going to call you rightly a hypocrite.

And it's even worse when people are dying because of COVID and can't actually go see their

dying relatives or parents and the prime minister is holding drinks parties.

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