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far more defiant as saying that the election process and the campaigning will continue. there have been questions just about can the process continue? can people still go to the polls? well, the answer or from casita is a resolute yes. at the elections will go ahead. they take place on sunday and that according to cuz she, there will be a way of showing your defiance in the face of what he call this aggression that pro democracy must be protected. you must never yield to violence to a 4 pause. most senior former officials said bladder michel, patina have been acquitted of corruption. they were found not guilty by a court in switzerland. the case was centered on a payment of $2000000.00 from fever to plot teeny, with black as approval in 2011. both men of long denied any wrongdoing. perkins government says that it will continue to deliver pre agreed policies despite the resignation of boris johnston. as conservative party leader johnston intends to stay on as the you case prime minister until the party elect

a successor. the stage is now set for a leadership race that could take weeks. at least a 1000 people have been killed and an attack and a medical clinic in the democratic republic of congo. it happened late on thursday night, around 40 kilometers from the city of benny. witnesses so that an armed group from neighboring uganda, known as the allied democratic forces is responsible for the attack. and those were headlines for these continues here on out to sarah after today's inside story next . ah controversial, undefined boris johnson has resigned. the british prime minister clung to power,

but failed to retain his policy support. who will replace him and what sort of leadership does the u. k need at this time? this is it's i sort ah, well mark his up program on him. ron kon, boris johnson's out, the british prime minister, held on for as long as he could. but a series of scandals followed by mutiny and then a domino of resignations and left him with no other choice than to step down from what he calls the best job in the world. the great public services. and to that new leda, i say whether he or she may be, i say, i will give you as much support as i can. and to you, the british public. i know that there will be many people who are relieved.

and perhaps quite if you will also be disappointed, and i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up the best job in the world. but then the brakes will begin in the moment, but 1st, the jona whole looks back. i brush johnson's time in office did not vote for us. he led his party to a landslide election victory in 2019. but boris johnson was to be undone, both by events in which he conspired, and also by his own character flaws that critics say made him unfit for high office, or johnson has no say salvation. he has, there is no moral leadership for him. it was always about becoming prime minister, not about being payments that and he, i think he knows himself well enough that he knows that he does not have the skills that you need to be a successful prime minister. sonya panell was a reporter working alongside johnson in the brussels bureau of the daily telegraph

. she describes a man with a lot of the child in him who enjoyed getting into and out of scrapes. a man drawn to calles and the chaos means that he can sort of in, through these things going along elise, all this noise, all this commotion, as the person with great i dale the wit, the witticism. and that is what appeals to him for his johnson. the corona virus pandemic was a perfect storm of crises and calles that blew attention away from other problems. despite his promise to get brakes, it done, britain remains mud and dispute with its biggest trading part of the european union . the economy is underperforming. the cost of living, rising health and education systems faltering success with the vaccine program helped obscure johnson's own indecision and delays in following scientific advice

that contributed to one of the highest death tolls. in the developed world, former chief advisor, dominant cummings, described the prime minister leadership as erratic in decisive distracted. nobody could find a way around the problem of the problem is that just like a shopping trolley smashing from one side to the other, the shopping trolley metaphors quickly be seized upon by the opposition. so he's doing what he always does. crushing over to the other side of the aisle, boris johnson learned early to be self sufficient in a family of competitive siblings with a mother who suffered ill health and a father who was frequently absent. at the elite british boarding school eton, he came to believe ordinary rules did not apply to him. in the infamous bullington . drinking club at oxford, the outward persona of a jovial buffoon, disguised and in an ambition for power. and as both a journalist for the times newspaper and a minister in opposition,

johnson was accused of lying and fire. these then, with the qualities he brought to politics as mayor of london as foreign secretary, and then his prime minister entitlement dishonesty and indifferent. this is really the 1st time in his life where he's ever, she'd been held to account for anything he's always been told. she's always been excuse is always been reasons made for him. for his behavior. there was wide support for his handling of the war in ukraine, but johnson never recovered from the scandal known as party gate. he received a police fine for attending a lockdown party in downing street, making him the 1st british prime minister to break the law while in office. a civil service report into a string of similar gatherings described a failure of leadership. eventually 148 of his own m. p. 's, 40 percent of the parliamentary party turned against him in a vote of no confidence country. maurice johnson limped on for

a bit again. but the reasons to forgive him had run out. journal al jazeera the let's bring in a guess from london, joe, and she's a political commentator and a former media adviser for the conservative party from east boston, tim bailey, professor politics, a queen, mary university of london, and also in london. matthew goodwin, he's a professor of politics at the university of kent. a warm welcome to your let's begin in london with joe la. is this the end of one of the most chaotic permit ships of recent history? well approaching that question. absolutely. technically, it isn't quite the end because we still don't know sitting here this afternoon, are quite exactly what mr. johnston's plans are for the next 2 or 3 months. we know he intends to stay on effectively and i can take

a role in his own position as p. m. but we don't really know where the conservative party is going to move against him and try to bring about quicker demise. a quick exit from down the street, but as to your point about a chaotic period, i think this has been an exceptionally chaotic period. unfortunately, having followed the fortunes of the conservative party for very many years now, it does have a guy that has been prone to these periods of self reflection and, and certainly just to one side and then have the well, the fractious leadership election processes. but i have to say, having really observed very many of them sent me the last that he is this, this one is right out. the air is being one of the most remarkable, and we haven't even gotten when you get closer yet. timbo, in east 12 things seem to be happening simultaneously. here one is boris johnson, buying himself some time by taking on this idea that he could be the caretaker

promised, or perhaps even hoping that he might be able to come up with a solution. and let's face it. he's done things like this before where he's come out with sticky situations and come out on top. but there are people within his own party that are gunning for his blood today. which one do you think will prevail? well, i think, or something's got any chance. so i'm staying on off some kind of kind of 2nd period. i think it's probably more like, you know, he'll be able to stay as a cat. i think though it's understandable. so something policy wants him to go. now . i think the events of the last 40 hours, of course, an awful lot. the problem for them is exactly how they will be able to do that. he will have to be persuaded to go immediately, and if he's not persuaded to resign immediately himself is very difficult. see exactly how they would be able to remove it. they would have to presumably and some

kind of injury media. the queen could then appointed prime minister that the queen into politics. i'm not sure that something the conservative party wants to do. so. i think it forest johnson wants to be, can take a prime minister for the next 2 or 3 months, then he's very likely to be able to fulfill how well it is. another matter, it doesn't seem to be a natural fit or someone you just want to as well look after the shot while you're getting on with other stuff. matthew goodwin also in london, nearly 50 more than 50 m. p. 's resigned. people are surprised in britain residing from positions that actually never even heard of. this is like unprecedented for storms and didn't seem to get the message within the 1st 24 hours of all of this. when was the 2nd side of it resigned? he must have got the message now. but why is he then trying to stay in power even if i can take a government?

l a and m. he said to me this morning. i think one of the things that surprised everybody over the last 40 hours is the extent to which one change opened up in bars. johnson's alma, everybody flooded in to try and take advantage of it. and such was the sentiment within the conservative party. the sort of disillusionment and the despair both johnston's leadership also in their performance. ready in the opinion, polls recent action to face lack policy, coherence, a trickle became a flaw than that flood became overwhelming. so johnson, you know, even in his resignation, speech today clearly fails. he is b stop. he has alluded to what he calls the instinct. he feels that the game is being being raked against him and that many of the m p 's really and that positions to his selection, victor in 2019 that's his particular view of the,

of the current situation. so i think actually, you know, his desire to stays, caretaker until we have a new prime minister. my instinct actually is that is genuine. i think johnson does cancer can a great deal about the. ready war and ukraine, i think he cares a great deal about finishing some of the things he's, he's started, but this is the end. i mean, this is the end of his premiership, and it's been a very turbulent one. it's been a consequential one. it's been a divisive one, been an incompetent one, but it's also being really one that will go down in the history books is having a profound impact on the country and it's future to another. so you nodding along an agreement that what matthew goodwin was saying, yes, it may well be the case that boris johnson does have certain issues that he does care about the war in ukraine was mentioned. but it was a chaotic premiership. he did a getting to many political scraps. many times, many of those probably were handled badly. he seemed to

a person the yes may have cared about certain issues, but he was much more about the infighting in the scrapping and the political survival that went along with being prime minister rather than actually leading a country. that's what a lot of people have been saying to me today. germany simply without argument when i think when full is done to the back foot, as he said frequently has been. and often because of his own inability to feel like confront some of the criticisms in the 1st instance and, and be straight forward with the rest of his party with the general public. i think yes, he has ended up looking like somebody who's been desperate to this and preserve his place simply in terms of wanting to exercise political power. and that's not really a good look. i slightly take issue with some of the commentary at the start of this piece when your reporter was coming out here is his personality. i mean, yes. clearly he's a man who is not in any way,

a straightforward personality for politics, but that's a lot to do. with why he has been very popular and, and it goes to the heart of his career. but i think he was supposed to be the non politicians politician. now, to certain extent, if you let somebody like that, you don't expect them to be a brilliant executive if you like. what seems to have gone wrong. and i'm for the money and i was a was if you like quite, it tends to support a bar stools and i thought he was absolutely essential to getting back sit down. but i do have some concerns about his leadership. however, i was reassured by people who were close to him when he was the mayor of london. but as long as he had the right team around him, the fact that he may be a bit of a dealer and i would have been overcome by the fact that he had this sort of strong supportive structure around to. now that seems to just not have been there right from the start of his spirit number 10. and so far as it was, we saw, you know, really early on. and his leadership, very senior advisors leading number 10 and not it's not helped him, timbo,

to another use the word curriculum. her. some would say entitlement might be way better word to describe barbara johnson. what are your thoughts? well, there's no doubt that he had a lot of people and he won the 2019 election precisely because he appealed to the right people at the right time. it has to be se, if you actually look at our assumptions, polling, he was never poking right across the country, but he was popular masset among the actual coalition. he managed to build in 2019 to came or from the mainland that often voted labor for that switch to the conservatives. i think the problem for him, of course, came when those voters began to tire off a party gates i think. but also of course, he like the government as

a whole is taken a big economy. we shouldn't get so fixated on personality or strong sense of the problems of the conservative party, or indeed his problems all to do with any fools in his personality. they're also very. busy difficult situation, the government is facing when it comes to inflation and the data possible recession . so yes, force johnson, the charismatic politician? no more is johnson didn't always appeal to absolutely everybody in this country. he appealed to the people that the conservative party needed him to appeal to back in 2019. but once he's reputation among bear began to fade, i think it was almost inevitable. release his policy, which was always a challenge about him as you suggested. turn on him and look for alternative matthew, good when it's almost impossible. and to mention that there he does have a force of personality is very strong personality. it's almost impossible to do

both from his role as the leader of the conservative party and prime minister. his personality almost the reason then for is doubtful. yeah, i mean for some, some really and he has himself to blame for his downfall. he made a number of unforced errors during his premier ship. the surrounded himself with i think people didn't bring out the best in his government. in his administration, he made a number of areas during the pandemic. he never really defined key policy planks like leveling off the country. the file to take advantage of practice is the comic strategy was confused that was from the contradictory. and he fell out with many influential people within his own party. and i think it's clear to everybody today that he really was unsuited for

high office. but there is an open question going forward, which is about find the answer to which is which other conservative can actually hold together. the aligns the voters, the orse johnson, mobilized in 2019 might be the case that somebody is going to merge. you can do that. but it might also be the case that actually only somebody with the kind of prisma the johnson had. or for him, nigel for arch was able to reach into those so cool. right, cool, industrial working class eats that, tim mentioned, and we don't really know. and if the conservative party cannot hold the lines together, it's very difficult if not impossible, to see how the conservatives when the next election, which is less than 2 years away. actually, that's a question that was about off all 3 of you. so thank you for bringing up a let me start with you matthew goodman. we'll do. we'll start with you. as you put

the question up. it's not a failure of boris johnson ism, this is simply a failure of boris johnson sat right or stone. some was never an ism, i mean if you compare johnson to tony blair or margaret fletcher or some of the other great transformative prime ministers in britain history, john johnson had no coherent agenda. he had no serious thing because around him he had intellectual framework for what is called the project project was essentially always johnson the man and a few policies attached to him. and that really explains how quickly it came crashing down and why it came crushing down, you know, there was no coherent, long term plan in place, even in the last hours of the crisis with lodging around trying to find tax cuts and policies that he could also write people and so that's really how it, how it all came down. and i think now you're going to have to offer

a great series of question, which is, what kind of policy do they want to be in the midst of the most serious cost of living crisis is countries for 50 years in that question is a really difficult one to answer 10 belle, the same question to you, is this a failure of boris johnson? and was there indeed even a burst johnson is no, i think that's absolutely right about that. i mean, there was never a kind of coherence to force johnson's ideology. i mean, i think he's a box and a conservative in this entity. wanted low taxes. he wanted a school state and he won't say it's a case of expanding under control. he's problem, of course was the pandemic. and indeed, what consensus a promise in actually 2019 didn't really allow for that and then going forward. i think that's absolutely right. concept is a real issue here because what it will take to win over the. busy conservative party in parliament and indeed, party members may not be well,

voters as a whole. you know, as far as part of that electron coalition that we've been talking about with favor, it's all very well to talk about tax cuts. most people favorite tax loan economies might already know when, when you're facing inflation respite. but of course, once people start talking as they have begun or for example, one of the storage and we are any source and we're running out of time. and i do want to get to everybody and i have a couple of questions very quickly. a book style conservative as well to build you use to describe or something. do you agree with? well, to the extent that being a conservative doesn't in itself in for a specific ideal, it g. i mean, both the 2 main parties in britain boasted by our particular electoral system of big coalitions. there are conservatives who believe in a small state and cutting taxes. there are those who want to, you know,

spend quite a lot of money, dicky, with the leveling off the agenda. and that's just looking at the financial agenda. i mean, i think that he successfully sat somewhere in the middle of one of those things. and that's one of his, the reasons for his earlier successful is that people couldn't quite pin him down. they didn't really know. was he a libertarian? was the a liberal, was your social conservative. right. and i mean he and he's raw, that kind of wandering around between all of those polarities. and i think that that goes to the heart of why we haven't had a coherent, consistent a policy agenda. politics has often been described as sports for unfit people. i'm, which was always maybe lopper. let's take a sports man for her. i'll begin with you joe. if you're a blessing, woman, who would you be for your money now? as the next leader, the concern to put a note in the holly. i think that often when you look at conservative leadership elections, that is not,

not the most obvious candidate. somebody is are able to pull these different factions together. is the person that emerges. i think that he has it has the benefit of having been in favor of rex it. but he has a very, can see it passing ality goes now he holds a major one of the most major offices after the pharmacy. he has the most important job in governments of interest and see how he despatches that so the next few weeks . i mean there will be very many runners. right. so it's quite so early to make that call mom because only 10 minutes you anyway. i think it probably depends on you guys that i think it pays call unite to stop this trust country. and she has a really good chance because she is quite popular among the membership. i would also get a job. it is done. most of the jobs actually in

government, i'm just printing off a pair of hands, or she said it was once a month going to recover. what about, you know, if you i think i'm, i'm going to watch closely of the next few days to see what ideas and thoughts they come out with. i see strengths and weaknesses with all of those. i mean, if you take, for example, richie so, you know, you know, a lot of conservative activists would argue, why should they might lead us some of the design that over the biggest? and since the 950 c book started job, a people might say, well, you know, they don't write is what they would say is, is this loyalty, you look at the things are way i think conservative activists again is tim says when it goes to the membership they might know like, well to funding on the prime minister who does remain quite popular among the grass roots. i think it's, i think, i'm not exactly sure who is going to emerge, but i think the water question, which is the, what is the type of host proxy conservatism that's going to emerge?

you know, what's the grey strategy? what's the productivity strategy? what's the, what's, what they're going to do in inflation, what they're going to do on the, in trade agreements for the rest of the world. you know, these are massive issues. my can't think of a prime minister made with the exception matcher in 79 who had such a daunting injury coming into power. i mean, these are huge issues, all of them, so whoever gets the job of it is in some respects, a poison charles, a poison charlotte that somebody has to take on at some point. i want to thank all our guest, john adler, tim bell and matthew goodwin. and i want to thank you as well for watching. now you can see the program again, any time by visiting our website out there a dot com for further discussion. go to our facebook page at facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside story. and you can also join the conversation on twitter. handle is at asia inside story from me around con and the whole team here. and uh

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