Current Events > Sunak and Javid resign within ten minutes of each other

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Do you need to be a member of parliament in the UK to be appointed minister/secretary?

A bit of both. Sunak as Chancellor and Javid as Health Secretary were classes as "Cabinet Ministers" - they had major jobs that were considered a part of the innermost circle of government - they'd be analogous to the SoD.

Other Ministers were in charge of departments but not considered as "major" - they're Ministers of State, but on a tier lower than Secretaries of State, while other resignations still were Parliamentary Secretaries, the third tier who, work in Ministers of State's departments.

All are - and continue to be - elected MPs and hold a seat in Parliament, represent a constituency, carry a parliamentary vote etc., but they no longer have a role in Johnson's government.

So Johnson still has a clear majority in Parliament (not that they still support him), that hasn't changed, but until these roles are filled in the coming days, he effectively doesn't have a functioning government. I believe there's something like 170-180 governmental positions across the various tiers, so roughly a quarter have resigned over the last 30 hours (some, admittedly, replaced already).

Can this defeat the idiocy of Brexit?

So do we know what is triggering all this or not yet

So like, what happened? Did he try to do an insurrection or something, or are we still mad about covid parties? Or is it just literally politics; his party smells weakness and they're going for the throat?

One of the few Boris supporters left: (warning this interview is very cringe and funny)

https://youtu.be/U_0R5R7xWgM

Who needs love island when we've got 'Minister or Binister?'

rats on a sinking ship but who will replace him

The straw that broke the camel's back was him promoting someone he knew to be a serial sex pest, then sending out a string of junior ministers to lie about it on TV.

But to be honest, at this point it's snowballed to the point that people are resigning because Boris isn't.

Boris Johnson will resign as Conservative leader today - he will continue as Prime Minister until the autumn.

A Conservative leadership race will take place this summer and a new Prime Minister will be in place in time for the Tory party conference in October.

Sacking Gove for telling you to resign and then resigning is hilarious

It's over!

Gove being the only one he sacked out of everyone who was telling to go is even funnier.

Especially because May and Cameron sacked him too

dude is going for a record

October isn't good enough, we need Dominic Raab (ugh) as caretaker PM until a new one is picked. Boris can and will still do damage.

Tory MPs want reassurances Johnson will really be caretaker PM

Iain Watson

Political correspondent

So can Boris Johnson really stay on until the autumn, as he hopes?

"That's the whopping question," a former minister tells me.

It may be possible to make only essential ministerial appointments given the imminence of Parliament's summer recess.

But some Conservative MPs want reassurances that the outgoing prime minister will genuinely act as a caretaker and, as one put it, only half-jokingly, "not take us to war".