British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told the House of Commons that he is adamant that he will continue to lead the Government despite a vote of no confidence in him by 148 Conservative MPs.
In his first parliamentary appearance since the internal impeachment process, from which he emerged victorious but having been wounded, Mr Johnson was asked questions about how the country can trust him when his MPs do not trust him.
Johnson responded by saying that "absolutely nothing and no one" would stop him from working to deliver the priorities of the people.
Asked by opposition party MPs to resign, he said he was getting on with his job.
Meanwhile, the Times newspaper reprinted an article by Boris Johnson from 2006 in which he criticised then-Prime Minister Tony Blair for not realising that the time had come for him to step down.
"It is a wonderful and necessary fact of political biology that we never know when our time is up. Long after it is obvious to everyone that we are gone, we continue to believe in our 'duty' to hold on to the privileges of our positions. We kid ourselves that we must stay because we would 'let the world down' or that there is 'a job to finish'. In reality, we are simply terrified of rehabilitation," the current Prime Minister wrote at the time.
He added that for politicians nothing is "easier or more natural" than postponing their resignation day.
And he described Mr Blair as a "human stooge", a description that has been used against him these days by Conservative party officials.
Source: CNA
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