Boris Johnson has departed the official residence and the office of the British Prime Minister, vowing the government will bail out struggling families from rising energy bills in his final speech and sending a final broadside about his resignation as prime minister, Report informs, citing The Guardian.
Johnson said it was a “tough time for the economy, a tough time for families up and down the country. We can, and we will get through it and come out stronger.”
The outgoing prime minister said the UK would “continue to have the strength to give people the cash they need to get through this energy crisis that Putin’s vicious war has caused”.
He said the Conservative government would “do everything we can to get people through this crisis, and this country will endure it, and we will win”.
Johnson said he would remain loyal and supportive to Truss after his departure. “Let me say that I am now like one of those booster rockets that has fulfilled its function, and I will now be gently re-entering the atmosphere and splashing down invisibly in some remote and obscure corner of the Pacific.