He made his announcement while standing at a podium in front of Number 10, Downing Street.

"And to that new leader I say, whoever he or she may be, I will give you as much support as I can," Johnson said.

"And to you the British people I know that there will be many who are relieved--but perhaps quite a few who will be disappointed--and I want you to know how sad I am to be giving up the best job in the world.

"But them's the breaks," he said.

Here is an excerpt of Boris Johnson's resignation speech, Click Here for the full transcript:

"Good afternoon everybody.

"It is now clearly the will of the parliamentary conservative party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new Prime Minister and I have agreed with Sir Graham Brady the chairman of our backbench MPs that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now and the timetable will be announced next week and I have today appointed a cabinet to serve—as I will—until a new leader is in place.

"So I want to say to the millions of people who voted for us in 2019--many of them voting Conservative for the first time thank you for that incredible mandate, the biggest Conservative majority since 1987, the biggest share of the vote since 1979. And the reason I have fought so hard for the last few days to continue to deliver that mandate in person was not just because I wanted to do so but because I felt it was my job, my duty, my obligation to you to continue to do what we promised in 2019.

"And of course I am immensely proud of the achievements of this government from getting Brexit done and settling our relations with the continent after half a century, reclaiming the power for this country to make its own laws in parliament, getting us all through the pandemic... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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