Ousted Boris Johnson signed off as PM by saying 'the rules were changed halfway through'
Describing the quick succession of four Tory leaders in a six year period as “a relay race”, Mr Johnson ended his farewell speech by calling for unity within his party.
Describing himself as "like one of those booster rockets that has fulfilled its function", Mr Johnson said he "will now be gently re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down invisibly in some remote and obscure corner of the pacific",“In only a couple of hours I will be in balmoral to see Her Majesty the Queen and the torch will finally be passed to a new conservative leader,” he said, before reflecting on the past years of his leadership.
and through that lacquered black door a new Prime Minister will shortly go to meet a fantastic group of public servantsand never forget - 70 per cent of the entire population got a dose within 6 months, faster than any comparable countrythe people who organised those prompt early supplies of weapons to the heroic Ukrainian armed forces,And because of the speed and urgency of what you did – everybody involved in this governmentwe have and will continue to have that economic...
building more hospitals – and yes we will have 50,000 more nurses by the end of this parliament and 40 more hospitals by the end of the decadegiving everyone over 18 a lifetime skills guarantee so they can keep upskilling throughout their livescolossal road programmes from the Pennines to Cornwall,
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