November 23, 2024

Boris Johnson’s resignation: the chaos explained in charts and graphs

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It’s been a week of political whiplash. From the record-breaking number of ministerial resignations in a single day to the odds of who is tipped to replace Boris Johnson, here is a visual guide in charts detailing what happened, and where we go next.

By the end of his time as prime minister, Johnson had lost the trust of nearly three quarters of the British public. His trustworthiness when he entered office in 2019 was 36 per cent, but after a series of scandals that figure plummeted to 13 per cent.

At no point during the bi-weekly polling conducted by YouGov did the majority of respondents rate him as trustworthy.

A key theme within the more than 50 resignation letters submitted by Conservative MPs in

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