Boris Johnson reaffirms that he will not resign and says the country does not need a new election

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday he would not resign and that the last thing the country needed was a national election.

“I’m not resigning and the last thing this country needs, frankly, is an election,” he told a parliamentary committee when asked to confirm that he would not attempt to call an election rather than resign if he lost a vote of confidence.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson declined to comment on Wednesday when asked about a report that a delegation of cabinet ministers was preparing to ask him to step down.

Johnson was speaking at a parliamentary committee hearing.

Government members resign and exacerbate crisis

Britain’s Boris Johnson tries to cling to power on Wednesday as support melts away from the increasingly isolated prime minister, badly hurt by the resignation of a number of high-ranking colleagues who said he was not. fit to rule.

There are now at least 36 members of the UK government who have asked to leave. Of the 22 who make up the prime minister’s cabinet, the government’s hard core, two have already left.