Boris Johnson Privately Says He Doesn’t Want to Resign

Boris Johnson has told a former treasurer campaigning to keep him in office that he “does not want to resign” as Prime Minister and wishes he could “wipe away” his departure, The Telegraph reports.

Said Lord Cruddas: “There was no ambiguity in Boris’s views. He definitely does not want to resign. He wants to carry on and he believes that, with the membership behind him, he can.”