Boris Johnson says he won’t endorse any of the candidates operating to switch him as Prime Minister.
Talking for the primary time since he introduced his resignation final week, Johnson stated his successor ought to proceed his personal “nice agenda”.
Eleven candidates have come ahead within the race for management thus far. Most of them are at the moment ministers in Johnson’s authorities.
Talking to journalists on the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical analysis facility in central London, Boris Johnson stated it was “not the job of the prime minister at this stage” to offer their opinion on the successor.
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“The job of the prime minister at this stage is to let the get together determine, allow them to get on with it and to proceed delivering on the tasks that we had been elected to ship,” Johnson stated.
“I do know that no matter occurs and whoever takes over, there’s a nice, nice agenda to be continued.”
Throughout the identical speech, Johnson stated he supposed to fulfil his mandate earlier than leaving his publish as prime minister. He promised to spend his closing weeks in Downing Road delivering “the programme we had been elected on” within the Conservatives’ landslide common victory of 2019.
“I’m decided to get on and ship the mandate that was given to us, however my job is absolutely simply to supervise the method within the subsequent few weeks, and I’m positive that the result can be good”.
Stressing the significance of shifting ahead and getting issues achieved, Johnson added that “the much less we discuss politics in Westminster, the widely happier we are going to all be.”
He repeated, “’I simply should get on”.
