Boris Johnson Resigns: A Look Back at His Political Career | WSJ
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would resign after a mutiny in his party over a series of scandals, bringing an end to a tempestuous premiership spanning Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic. WSJ looks at the rise and fall of the British leader.
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As an American it’s awkward watching this because this is nothing compared to what some of our politicians do and still keep their jobs and popularity.
@@dr-tse you mean a more "authoritarian" model because socialism has nothing to do with cult of personality.
I feel the same way. I was watching people resign and the political heat turn up and I was like, "wait what did he do for it to be THIS bad???" I was expecting he attempted an insurrection or something...
@@dr-tse Boris won the 2019 election single handedly. He was bigger than the party, but he neglected his campaign promises. The scandals would be minor details if he'd just wasn't such a lousy and indecisive leader.
Unfortunately Boris Johnson has always been a liar, cheat, dishonest and rotten to the core, and much of what has gone on still hasn't been divulged, but it is known now that he was a huge risk to the security of the UK and a lot of fraud was committed also, and it will take a lot of years to overcome every bit of damage he has done
I don’t think you have paid attention to what this guy did and what his govt did. It was a way worse.
i havent seen a politician admit his mistake or lies for long time.
It took him a very long time. Hes been told to resign for months and is only now because his ministers are all resigning
he only did cause he was caught
It's because he's not liberal. They will never admit what they did was wrong and apologize for it.
@@masterman1266 boris may not be a good politician, but at least, he has the dignity to step down when realizing the game is up.
you must not be aware of previous british pms. like half of them end up resigning.
I feel like this video was just waiting for a status change from private to public.
I was just thinking about that! That was really quick
and here I was thinking it's not even been 24hours since the man resigned and they already have a video out 😂
@@VarunSastry09 Everybody and their grandma were quite literally expecting his resignation to come in any day now. The flurry of resignations in his cabinet became topic du jour to the point that even grocery stores and pop culture were referencing it.
@@jeromeorji1057 ohhk... I didn't know that as I'm not living in UK For us, it's like Boris did this, he did that, now he's resigning. For me, cut to few hours later, open KZhead as saw news, lo behold WSJ had a video out titled 'rise and fall..' 😂🤷🏻♂️
Honestly, wouldn’t be surprised Likely they have many contingency videos prepped
As an American I’m envious that the people could bring down a man like this. While for us in America, we can’t do the same for politicians that have done much worse, yet still manage to get away with it.
@@samueledison4676 Having sex with a porn star, without a condom, using funds from donors to pay for her silence, while his wife was home carrying his son. We know because his personal lawyer set it up and went to prison for it. And that was one of the good things.
True...UK..standards are stricter and honest.....USA...standards...much more relaxed....quite a difference..
Well trump is gone ..
That's due to the ignorance of the people. America is still a democracy.
1) UK is a parliamentary democracy; and 2) UK has no written constitution. Thus, the majority of the majority of the legislative body may act at will, including tossing aside the leader of that faction.
I love the way it was put at the end. The conservative party voted him out not because of his lack of ethical behavior but because he could no longer win elections.
Indeed. He was only acceptable until he became unelectable. These Torys... They would enable Hitler, until Hitler went too far.
That's most countries
One of America's political party couldn't even do that
@@alex_zetsuTrue!
Google isn't translating your comment, so if it's a good comment write it in English
People of England take trust very serious. Here in America we love it when politicians lie to us, we actually defend them when they do.
Looks like it...people in America, given second chances....third....fouth...etc..
People of the UK*
This is the most American thing I've ever read
That's something that has already crossed the pond.
People of the UK*
We need a compilation of Boris apologizing lol
😂😂😂
It already exists! I watched it the other day! 😂😂😂
It's hilarious that Boris Johnson is being told to step down for scandals that almost every Democrat politician is guilty of.
that’d last days
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The parallels between Johnson's and Trump's tenure are startling. Whereas in America, dishonor is a badge to be proudly worn if not flaunted. In Britain, the price is your career.
You have just named the two most amoral people in the world, shame on them!!
@@--christine Trump got the job done and still is doing it, the other lied better an honest man than the dishonest one.
Not a mention of the disgraceful Biden or Obama. Who did much worse than Trump. Look at the USA now and tell me it is better under Biden
In America,..you can make mistakes and get away with it ..in UK...you make mistakes...and you get fired...your fired.
@@janejohnstone5795 It's because the UK Conservatives are done with old man Boris, they don't need him. The same can't be said for the GOP which has now turned to a Donner party.
That was fast... Does WSJ have these video pre-made if an event happens?
Yup
Its all over yt on wion yesterday I noticed after watching the 1 where he got grilled
no...that's Boris live earlier today. it went out to the world
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. You’ll be surprised.
That’s how news/propaganda works. It’s all about hits and views. Whoever comes out with the video or article first, get more hits. More money. It’s a business. Don’t you remember the election between Trump and Hillary. They already had a magazine with Hillary on the cover ready to be released……Jajajajajajaja
С ума сойти !!! 😵 тв, пресса - Все!! ждали это -- *07.07.* в Иван *КУПАЛА!!!!* 😳 это что для Путина подарок *!!???* 😵 как в Москве ливень всё залил 🙊
Boris failed upwards his whole life. Until now
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go - Oscar Wilde
This was a very sanitised report. All of the issues were skipped over, and no depth. There was nothing reported on how the media had played their part in his ability to outstay his welcome!
He Has no moral/ ethical/ legal backbone, BUT we need to reflect of us as a nation electing such an individual AND what it means for this nation as a global contender to elect such a human being and support his livelihood on our taxes.
Jew detected
Part of the issue is with PM we don't really elect them, the parties select their leader who just has to win one seat which will always be picked as their safest seat.
Democrats and liberals are the true cancer in a Democracy
One thing wrong here, is he didn't admit that he'd been at a party for months and avoid it. But eventually U turned when he realised it wasn't going to go away.
Applauding the people of UK 👏🏼
as a european, i can tell u uk is the alt right country of europe. it is arguably worse than russia.
What follows is a worse leader ofc
@@user-vj3gq7di8c can't be much worse than Boris
It was the people in the 1st place that elected him without caring about the slug trail of abuse he had left in his wake previously. The people put him in office knowing what he was.
First decent thing Boris has done since he took office as PM.
When heading the CPS, Starmer placed 14,000 girls into deeply grotesque episodes, and 2 deaths ... ....while Johnson's sister was thoughtful enough to point out "imagine if that happened to one of us!" on air.
@@happystarhappystar1477 what are you talking about?
@@yw9113 When heading the CPS, Starmer placed 14,000 girls into deeply grotesque episodes, and 2 deaths ... ....while Johnson's sister was thoughtful enough to point out "imagine if that happened to one of us!" on air.
One word: Integrity. Even Bojo the Clown's signature success Brexit was purely a way for him to gain power. Before he backed Brexit, he famously wrote two articles advocating both Leave or Remain and rapidly made a decision which way would give him personal advancement. He also said that a "Hard Brexit" was a million-to-one-against chance - then ended up enacting a horribly damaging diamond hard Brexit. He will go down in history as a disgraceful liar with no credibility.
Diamond hard Brexit? Your having a laugh.The majority of politicians in parliament are extreme remainers who have not accepted the 2016 referendum result & have fought tooth & nail with the help of the BBC & MSM for 6 years to subvert that decision. Brexiteers did not vote for the annexation of NI by the treacherous Theresa May.
@@czerwonadupa9547 Don't be ridiculous. The existing Brexit deal is a complete and total severance of all ties to the EU to the point of demolishing the Northern Ireland Protocol which leaves an unsolved disaster. The VAST majority of Leavers voted that way expecting at least to continue in the customs union.
isn’t it funny how idiots like boris and biden always get in by piggybacking on crisis and desperate people,boris with brexit and biden with trump being well trump.
Fabulous!
One of the best! Respect!
Brits will pay for years afterwards for what Boris Johnson has done. At the very least, I hope that they learn that people who are financially, socially distressed are easy victims for Johnson's politics.
He looks like he just came out electric shock therapy. 🐗
1 month later... Boris: "I didn't resign. I don't recall that"
I didn't realise that I resigned.
Too often there is a problematic association between political ambition and personality disorders.
Interesting from a psychological POV.
He fell faster than his ride on the Zip wire a few years ago..😂😂
And when he got stuck, he was up there longer than his tenure in parliament 😂
😂 😂😂😂
@@amp279 I had this image of him flying into Ukraine on a zip wire, waving the Union Jack in both hands… and then getting stuck half way… just dangling like a child on a swing..mumbling ‘look, I can see Kiev from here..’😂😂
He didn't actually say he was resigning, just that he will remain until a new leader
That's the same thing.
Boris rose to the heights of ultimate power the problem was it all went to his head .Get brexit done is all he will be remembered . His deceitful bumbling was just his natural character and we all fell for that hook line and sinker that cheeky grin is no more. please vote someone in who doesn't think he was born to do this job and want to grasp the challenge head on ?
You blokes vote for someone who knows how to brush his hair….us yanks will work on voting for someone who doesn’t wear a diaper
@@runpigrun They all wear nappies they just need to be shown how to put them on by there special advisors
Working people love siding with the posh candidate who pretends to be an every man. The cheeky grin and the self-deprecating humor is all it takes. George W Bush shredded the Constitution along the way so I guess Brits got off easy.
In India we don't even think about these "petty" mistakes made by our politicians. It's looting public money is what we think is an issue for us.
he did quite a lot of that aswell
Sorry for having high standards of the people who quite literally represent us.
It's called 1st world problems where these little petty mistakes are covered in media and are talked about like huge catastrophic issues while many other poorer countries in the world have real challenging issues like feeding their population and providing quality education to children. I hope some day people in the UK actually open their eyes up to the world and actually see for themselves that there are other issues that is worth looking into and dealing with and not just these stupid government christmas parties during lockdown. By the way, I'm half British half Vietnamese and I've had exposure from both societies and cultures
It's not the mistakes, they happen as people are human and we all make mistakes. The problem is his continual lying and covering up of the mistakes.
@@dajo8723 well he and the conservatives can say whatever they want, the fact is it did happen and it's still petty little things that doesn't really matter much. Of course, it's an important principle that no one is above the law so I can agree that they need to be held accountable and they were. Still doesn't make it as important relative to other issues that are shadowed by this talk on christmad parties
He was never boring that's for sure!
He wasn't honest or competent either.
Sometimes boring is good
@@achtungmark When heading the CPS, Starmer placed 14,000 girls into deeply grotesque episodes, and 2 deaths ... ....while Johnson's sister was thoughtful enough to point out "imagine if that happened to one of us!" on air.
@@happystarhappystar1477 Am not sure what exactly you're talking about, to be honest.
No, he was never Boring, he was and is always Boris.
“It’s the arrogance. It’s the contempt. That’s what gets me, it‘s Gordon Brown’s apparent belief that he can just trample on the democratic will of the British people.” In 2007 who wrote this in The Telegraph? Yes, you’ve got it … it was BoJo! 🫣
Never be sure …..
his purpose was Brexit. Task complete. peace out
Boris was never 100% pro Brexit. He used the vote leave campaign as a bid to challenge David Cameron and replace him as prime minister (which he denied). And when leave actually won (which he never expected) he tried to seize power, but was kneecapped by Michael Gove. Then when Theresa May became PM,he constantly undermined her from the shadows. When Theresa lost her majority it made him even bolder. He cast doubt over her leadership and courted revolts until she resigned, leaving PM wide open for him. The media documented this extremely well. It’s never been about Brexit, it’s always been about Boris.
Agreed. Bit of damage along the way though 🤦🏽🤣
Why is he reopening the Withdrawal agreement if it's done?
the video didnt elaborate on the final blow imo. boris considered placing an mp in a high government role, was told about the mp’s accusations of sexual assault beforehand but followed through with the appointing. then when he got backlash he fired him, pretended that he didnt know even though people had told him.
There's no rise
Many shoes will drop but there will always be those who will run to put them on.
Oooo. I shouldn't wonder what *Andy Zaltsman* is going to feature on the _News Quiz_ this week. 🤣😂😅
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If Cameron was the Gang Leader ,Theresa was the Getaway Driver and Boris the lookout Man Who is the Inside Man that Inherits the Prime Ministers Job
Perhaps, Hunt (rhyming slang)
If this reasons are to be applied on any Head of State then 90% of World leaders have to resign. Poor Boris
This is the only thing his done right
What about his early warning shouts about the imminent invasion of Ukraine, are you saying he was wrong to do so?.
@@MrBrian260269 nothing was done in 2014. It's too late now.
Praise the Lord!
Hallelujah 😂
More courage from England’s Conservatives in this one instance than the entire Republican Party under Trump. Sad.
He has a lot more power than Trump in the UK system. If the person at the top is corrupt the whole government goes the same way.There are few checks and balances
I was gonna to say the same thing about America's liberals for the last two years along with Biden and his democrats. Funny.
@@nl396 but you didn't so.......
@@cornellwaters8969 I hope you’re kidding
Populist government becomes unpopular.
Long overdue
It blows my mind that a news outlet like WSJ would post a video with such poor audio editing.
Boring Johnson will be remembered as the Butcha executive producer
Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
Ouch
All I can say is 'wow'! ... such great lessons in leadership!
To all you Brits across the pond, are you satisfied Boris resigned?
YES absolutely.Although there are several slithering snakes waiting in the wings to take his place
As a conservative (republicans for you Americans ) YES he broke ridiculous amount of rules the only good thing he did was his support for Ukraine
No, to force a prime minister to resign during a world crisis is disgraceful, the only winner is Putin.
Johnson needs to be put under 24 hour supervision until he leaves Downing Street ....... he is a wounded dangerous man likely to do anything even the man in grey ex PM John Major has said he should leave now today.
Mr Major usually quite sensible.
Am I insane or is that Georg Rockall-Schmidt doing the narration?
I hope boris Johnson be the president of honduras c.a.he is good looking gorgeus very smart.to bad he has to resigns.l wish good luck to him .God bless him all country should protect democracy and freedom.
Johnson never truly believed Brexit would be good for the UK, he was only interested in it being good for him.
Looks like a very human warm person . Great to see him in Ukraine .
It's not really a question of the rise and fall of B Johnson, it's more a question of a country which has never been capable of accepting the fall of its empire and which has been allowed to continue to think that somehow its history can be lived on forever! Things change.
UK is rapidly reaching developing nation status.
Agree🤨🥴
There's only a small proportion of the UK that think like that but they happen to be the ones that vote the most. For example if more young people had bothered to come out and vote in the referendum the results would have been different.
How do you draw that conclusion fgrom the saga of Boris Johnson? The two issues are not really connected.
The fall of the empire is a separate subject..has nothing to do with the present day politics.
He attended 16 parties 🎈 gathering and drink 🍹. While people died alone in hospital.
white people, am i right?
Sounds like that record is cracked!
A higher he wanted to rise, the worst he would fall. 55 members of his cabinet have been resigned in 2 days. How worse it could be? He may face a criminal investigation once he's out of 6 Downing St
Let’s hope so… Guy has got the UK involved with ethnic cleansing in Ukraine…🤬
he took his jacket off was mentioning in the g7 meeting
The subtitle track is absolutely botched.
Lord Buckethead is replacing Boris
It's unstoppable journey with you sir.
"Mutiny" as opposed _rebellion_ or _revolt_ ?! Hm...
Nice video.
That was fast
"He's an excellent communicator" Boris: "Rorcus Corcus from the anti orcus corcus"
If he was voted out, that's one thing, but to quit, never!
He got incredibly close to being voted out just a couple weeks ago in a no-confidence vote, closer than even Thatcher. The writing was on the wall, now he’s just gotten it through his head.
It probably was like President Nixon in America. Resign or be ousted. Which one do you pick? Not a hard choice for most.
History keeps repeating itself, thinking back then, people didn't like the Trump administration, so what now? Is the current government better than it used to be? People in the UK are doing the same thing.
Trump didn't quit, he was fired. Quitters never win.
Sad because democrats/ liberals are the true cancer in today's society
What about his links and secret contacts with the Russian KGB. Why nothing is mentioned ?
Now you are edited 🤠 resign and audit
The Problem, neither were conservative in any remote meaning of the word... certainly not Thatcherian.
when i saw this i thought it would be like one of those youtuber rise and fall vids. lol
Good, he was a horrible careerist who achieved nothing while in power. Immigration is at an all time high and woke bureaucrats are not dealt with. That's all on him.
There's no shame in defeat only bitter reflection bozzier now we can focus on get this country fit for recovery
You cannot get the country fit for a recovery, we are in the middle of a world crisis. The biggest mistake is forcing a running prime minister to resign during that crisis. Putin is happy he gets his wish. It's a dam disgraceful action by the Conservative party, I am starting to think that Putin has insiders in the Conservative party.........
We are grateful for Brexit Boris. Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou!
Jonathan Pie, where are you?
5:33 what a top notch bird!
Brexit ended this 🦃 and it is far from over because leaving the EU was a bad choice. British trouble will get worse!!
Had literally nothing to do with Brexit...
Leaving the EU was a good move like how Switzerland didn’t even join
Ah finally
its a really sad day for britain 😥🇬🇧
There's a lot more that happened than what was revealed here. TWO ethics officials resigned under him amongst countless others... That's speaks volumes in itself.
Boris did a good job as a Mayor of London, but as a prime minister he messed up big time.. the PM Tittle went in to hes head and he completely ignored the voters.. good buy Boris.
as a londoner he was also an awful mayor. Basically none of the projects he takes credit for (the Olympics, 'Boris' bikes etc.) were actually created by him. He closed down police stations across London and made TFL worse, only subsequently being improved by Sadiq Khan, and he wasted millions of public money on sweet nothing e.g. the garden bridge that went nowhere
Looking forward for the Vince McMahon rise and fall video you guys are making now! 🤣🤣🤣
--Like-- the way he did Other leader have to follow N the rahyat will live in Peace
7:11 whole drama summed up in one sentence. making a youtube short video will save trillions of minutes of peoples precious lives.
Trillions of minutes? 1 trillion minutes is about 2 million years. WSJ videos get around 200 thousand views each. So with your logic each person who watches this video will spend 9.5 years on it, or they will watch it 715,000 times. It won't save trillions of minutes.
@@skylarkesselring6075 you've surely heard of something called 'hyperbole', right?
LOL'ed at that comment. But it's very true.
@@hydrolifetech7911 nope
How can a man stay PM with that hairstyle 😂😂😂
Lol so true
If it is only hes hairstyle how sad 🙄👌 some people aint got none !
same way Trump did with his combover
@@sterlingmarshel6299 and bad fake tan.
He is a father who disclaims responsibilities.
Tredeau should take a hint
We will know why he resigned when the next PM come up.
The clown has left the building.
He's a good guy. people are fickle.
Politics is just a game of chess….
Ouh, please! The sound problems of this video!!!!
Maybe when he is out of office, He can learn how to take care of his hair.
'B'oris 'J'ohnson/B & J( his name itself symbolizing, Boaz & Jachin) does finally resign ?! I'm so curious about UK's NEW prime minister.
All out
He would make a boatload of money as an orator.
i dont know much about this guy but him admitting his mistakes definitely makes him better than most of his craft. many would just double down
He didn't admit his mistakes. His resignation speech blamed everyone but himself and had no apologies for his actions.
All he's ever done is double down. He dug himself in deeper and deeper by doubling down on his lies, and now he's been forced out, he still hasn't apologised. Why would he? What would that do for him, right?
Political coup
I only wish our (US) politicians were half as honest as Johnson. Can you imagine trump ever apologizing or taking blame for anything, ever?
ts time to go and appoint a leader to this country for the first time since 2007. In the interests of this nation Boris must now step aside immedietly and take up the role of foreign secretary for co ordination of the EU and ukrain war until october to provide balance to this particular role. Domiic Rub will be caretaker PM until october.His role will be to increase benefits and assistance to low wage earners,level up the financial inequality in the UK which has held back economic investment and growth. He weill appoint a new cabinet to support new UK investment,appoint JeremyHunt as Health secretary,Micheal Gove as chancellor,retain and strengthen immegration removal laws and put in place a new savings resilience by raising interest rates and industrial stratey with new targets fo 26% of manufacture in the UK by 2026. Micheal Gove will increase interest rates to 4.3 %, tax cuts only to regressive taxes on the factors of production which has held the economey back.He wll make ammendments to the planning system to bring back agricultural land into production and 100% taxes on greenbelt building.Whilst Gove will restructure retail banking putting new building societies and credit unions into former bank branches in the high street to ensure local economies are no longer starved of cash. The position of chanceller will also provide up to 15% discount on business rates for employing severely disabled and blind employees who earn above average wages on that site. Rub will continue in rebuilding miltary innovation, funding for the army and strengthen university funding in the areas of Enigneering,maths,physics,chemestry,bio sciences and computer hardware engineering. The interests of the nation will not be served by boris continuing in any other role from next week.
Better to be a clown like Johnson than a war criminal like the supposed "leader" Blair...