Anyone know what he did to piss people off so much? Did the people who voted for Brexit now blame him for the problems I hear it's caused England?
During the lockdown periods in the UK, he hosted a number of parties in Number 10 (UK PM's residence) that pissed a lot of the public off.
Sorta a do what I say, not what I do hypocrisy.
There was also political scandals, corruption, banging his now wife before divorcing the last one.
Combine that with the economic issues globally caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, being compounded by the preexisting economic issues of Brexit, and the Conservative Party are 10 points behind Labour in the polls e.g. electorally fucked given the UK electoral system.
For reference his "massive mandate" from the 2019 election was based on picking up ~50 Labour seats in the north of England, all of which are held on 2-3% margins.
The current polling flips those seats RIGHT back to Labour.
This was seen in a number of recent by-elections where Labour and the LibDems smashed Tory candidates.
The members of his party looked at all this and last month Boris barely survived a vote of confidence in his leadership of the party.
The proverbial straw was him appointing a Conservative MP (named Pincher of all things) with a long history of allegations of sexual misconduct to a senior party position.
Boris knew about this, commenting "Pincher by name, Pincher by nature" but lied and said he didn't.
Pincher got caught out, resigned his new post, and a senior member of Cabinet called Boris on it.
Boris fired him.
The rest of the cabinet looked at this and 60 members resigned in under 48 hours in digust.
So Boris has resigned as leader of the Conservative Party and committed to remaining as caretaker PM until the Conservative Party elect a new leader.
Should happen around September or so.
There's the potential that the Opposition parties in Parliament call a vote of no-confidence on Monday: it's unlikely to pass as ~35 members of the government themselves would have to vote to bring it down but if they did...
The Conservatives MIGHT be able to appoint some inoffensive member as a Caretaker PM until their leadership election but it wouldn't be any of their leadership candidates (none of them would allow it as it'd put that person into too good a position to win the office) but they also wouldn't support a Labour PM.
In that case probably the best constitutional position is that the Queen invites someone to be sworn in as PM (Keir Starmer, someone from the SNP) and that person's first and last act as PM is to advise Her Maj to call an election.
Let the voters sort it all out.