England – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com American exceptionalism isn't dead. It just needs to be embraced. Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:37:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://americanconservativemovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-America-First-Favicon-32x32.png England – American Conservative Movement https://americanconservativemovement.com 32 32 135597105 ‘V for Vendetta’ Got It Wrong: Tyranny Comes to Britain Under the Political Left https://americanconservativemovement.com/v-for-vendetta-got-it-wrong-tyranny-comes-to-britain-under-the-political-left/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/v-for-vendetta-got-it-wrong-tyranny-comes-to-britain-under-the-political-left/#comments Wed, 14 Aug 2024 03:51:30 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=210436 (Zero Hedge)—There have been plenty of depictions of dystopian future from popular entertainment media over the years, most of them derivatives of books like Brave New World by Aldous Huxley or 1984 by George Orwell with a contemporary spin.  Interestingly, Orwell was inspired to write 1984 by a lesser known dystopian tale called ‘We’, written by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin during the darkest years of communism.  Orwell argued that Huxley was also inspired by We, but Huxley denied it.

Whenever scientific dictatorship is envisioned by fiction writers the end result is usually very similar to already existing socialist regimes.  Soviet doctrine and the ideals of the Third Reich were inspired by Karl Marx; meaning, both regimes were built on far-left philosophies.  Progressives today often maliciously associate Nazis with conservative thought, but both Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini were avid followers of Marx.  As Hitler noted on January 27, 1934, in an interview with Hanns Johst in Frankforter Volksblatt:

“National Socialism derives from each of the two camps the pure idea that characterizes it, national resolution from bourgeois tradition; vital, creative socialism from the teachings of Marxism. Volksgemeinschaft: that means a community of all productive labor, that means the oneness of all vital interests, that means overcoming bourgeois privatism and the unionized, mechanically organized masses, that means unconditionally equating the individual fate and the nation, the individual and the Volk…”

Hitler presented himself as a Christian patriot to win over the German public as they faced economic and moral degradation during the unchecked liberalism of the 1920s, but in private he was not a fan of the religion.  Hitler is noted by Albert Speer as saying:

“You see, it’s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn’t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”

In fact, finding and defining a “conservative” totalitarian regime is almost impossible in modern times.  Without the defense of free markets, individual liberty, meritocracy and a healthy respect for constitutional fairness one cannot call himself conservative.  The Nazis were no more conservative than Neo-Conservatives are conservative, they are simply leftists that pursue ultimate power using nationalism as a proxy instead of pure globalism.

How the “right wing” was culturally associated with authoritarianism is all thanks to modern Hollywood.  The same people that write endless tales of Nazi horror have long ignored the even greater genocides of communism in the Soviet Union, China and elsewhere.  And, whenever a modern dictatorship is portrayed in art or film it is usually tied somehow to a conservative (and often Christian) takeover of society.

This brings us to a little film called V For Vendetta released in 2006, and it brings us to the tyranny now accelerating in the UK.

V For Vendetta is based on the graphic novel by the same name written by Alan Moore (picture below), a talented British scribe but also known by many in the comics industry as a leftist and communist.  Moore’s take on an Orwellian government dominating Britain was decidedly anti-conservative, to no one’s surprise.

The film, directed by the Wachowski Brothers (creators of The Matrix and now both claiming to be “trans women” pictured below), took the anti-conservative view from the comic to even greater extremes with an underlying LGBT propaganda message.  V depicts a British government gripped by authoritarian Christian zealots bent on rounding up and exterminating gay people (and anyone else they deem unfit).  They use an engineered pandemic crisis to frighten the English population and seize power (sound familiar?), establishing a relentless police state run by sexual degenerates that saturates media with disinformation to keep the public docile.

Another film with a similar theme is Children Of Men (release the same year as V for Vendetta), which uses the UK as a backdrop to showcase the steady decline of humanity after a pandemic ends our ability to have children.  The authoritarian government in that tale is dominated by white Brits who round up migrants and place them in concentration camps, and of course a migrant woman ends up being the key to solving the question of infertility.

While most people can relate to the struggle against totalitarianism, the intolerable fallacy being perpetuated is that when the jackboots finally march on the western world they will do so in the name of conservative values and religion.  Well, the dystopian nightmare has arrived in the UK, and the truth is quite the opposite.

The British public is being culturally diminished through forced mass immigration to which the government offers no redress.  UK authorities are far-left in their ideology and promote globalism as the system which Brits must accept without question.  And, those same establishment elites have joined with third-world migrants and Islamic militants to terrorize the population into submission.

Today, UK police are out in force threatening to arrest anyone remotely critical of open immigration or UK migrant policies.  They have also doubled down on the two-tier policing that caused the patriot protests and riots to begin with.  These are not scenes from V For Vendetta, these are scenes from the UK this week:

UK authorities have now made multiples arrests dealing with social media posts and opinions as well as arresting people who were merely spectators at various protests.  They are also searching for ways to take down their political opponents, with leftist politicians using MI6 to investigate Nigel Farage for “financial ties” to Tommy Robinson and Russia.  It’s expected that adjacent leftist governments around the world will be following the UK’s example.

Is the far-left really oblivious to their own natural tendencies towards tyranny?  Or, is all the media depicting a conservative run dystopia really a form of gaslighting?  A means to demonize the very people the elites have long sought to erase from history?

When rebellion against this trend explodes (and it will), many great speeches on liberty similar to those spoken in so many pieces of predictive entertainment will not be spoken by leftists and they won’t apply to leftists.  Leftists are not the freedom fighters they imagine themselves to be.  They are, in fact, the villains of the story.

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Labour Set for Crushing 170 Seat Majority in UK General Election, as Conservative Party Suffers Worst Result in Its History https://americanconservativemovement.com/labour-set-for-crushing-170-seat-majority-in-uk-general-election-as-conservative-party-suffers-worst-result-in-its-history/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/labour-set-for-crushing-170-seat-majority-in-uk-general-election-as-conservative-party-suffers-worst-result-in-its-history/#comments Fri, 05 Jul 2024 03:35:01 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=209505 (Zero Hedge)—The year of record elections continues to serve up dramatic results, and on Thursday, a national exit poll in the UK general election indicated that Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives will crash out of office after 14 years after Keir Starmer’s Labour party was heading for a massive majority of about 170 seats. The poll on Thursday night suggested Starmer will become prime minister with 410 seats out of 650 in the House of Commons, while Sunak’s party is facing the worst result in its history, with just 131 seats.

The result, according to the FT, is “momentous for Britain and will resonate around the world” because at a time when right-wing populists are advancing in many countries, political power in the UK has swung back to a liberal, internationalist, centre-left party.

But Labour’s victory was projected to be delivered on a smaller share of the vote than the 40% secured by leftwing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in his 2017 general election defeat — suggesting the public remains sceptical.

Labour’s shadow foreign secretary David Lammy warned: “If we do not deliver for working people, we will be out and nationalists will be on our tails.” He added: “That’s the lesson we have seen around the world.” Meanwhile, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK was projected to do better than expected with 13 seats, a result that would be a big breakthrough for his right-wing populist party.

The first two constituencies to report results on Thursday evening, both in the north of England, showed Labour wins with Reform in second place.

Labour’s victory is a personal triumph for Starmer, who took over the party’s leadership in 2020 after the party’s worst election defeat in almost a century. His projected victory is similar in scale to Sir Tony Blair’s 1997 Labour landslide.

That said, while the Ipsos exit poll is usually a reliable predictor of overall results, the final result may still differ. Vote counts from individual constituencies will trickle in through the night, with Labour, if the polls are correct, likely to have a clear majority by 5am.

According to the exit survey, the centrist Liberal Democrats was on course to win 61 seats, close to the 62-seat record set by the party in 2005. The Lib Dems are forecast to make big gains in the Tory “blue wall” of rich constituencies in the south of England. The Scottish National party was set to come behind Labour in Scotland with just 10 seats, according to the exit poll, putting a serious dent in the party’s dream of securing independence.

The survey exposed the overwhelming sentiment reported by candidates from all parties that Britain wanted “change”, with many senior Tories admitting during the campaign that the party looked exhausted. The UK has been under Conservative rule for 14 years, during which time there have been five prime ministers, with a near catastrophic banking and bond market crisis erupting during the brief reign of Liz Truss. The period was marked by economic austerity, Brexit, the coronavirus pandemic and an energy price shock.

Former Tory minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said it was “clearly a terrible night” and added that the Conservatives had taken votes for granted.

Starmer is set to become only the seventh Labour prime minister in the party’s history, and his victory is the first since 2005 for the center-left party. Labour last ousted the Tories from power in 1997, when Tony Blair became prime minister in a crushing victory over John Major’s Tories. He will move into 10 Downing Street on Friday and immediately form his cabinet, with an instruction to ministers to quickly deliver policies to jolt Britain out of its low-growth torpor.

The exit poll indicated that Starmer’s avowedly pro-growth, pro-business agenda has paid off, as Labour bucked international political trends. Far-right parties have performed strongly in recent elections for the European and French parliaments, while in the US, Donald Trump is leading in polls for the presidential race.

Labour’s chancellor-in-waiting Rachel Reeves has said she hopes investors will now see the UK as a “safe haven” although once the UK unleashes the next spending spree to fund all the various welfare projects, we fully expect another quick funding crisis and even more QE.

Starmer has promised to work with business to stimulate growth, with an agenda that includes planning reform and state investment in green technology. Labour will also pursue a traditional agenda of reforms to worker rights.

As for outgoing PM Sunak, the result is a personal disaster. He chose to hold an early election on July 4 — against the advice of his campaign chief Isaac Levido — and ran an error-strewn six-week attempt to turn around his party’s fortunes.

The party’s projected total of 131 seats is lower than the party’s worst-ever result of 156 in 1906. Starmer’s expected seat haul is close to the 418 seats won by Tony Blair in his 1997 landslide victory.

A number of senior Tory figures are expected to lose their seats on a night of devastation, reducing the cast list of potential contenders for the party leadership if, as expected, Sunak stands down. Among the cabinet ministers deemed to be at risk by the exit poll are Penny Mordaunt, Jeremy Hunt, James Cleverly, Kemi Badenoch and Grant Shapps, with results due in their seats in the early hours.

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Rishi Sunak Barely Survives British Elections https://americanconservativemovement.com/rishi-sunak-barely-survives-british-elections/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/rishi-sunak-barely-survives-british-elections/#respond Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:08:09 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=195043 Editor’s Commentary: The globalists must still have plans for Rishi Sunak because he was allowed to continue down his path… barely. This was surprising considering the situation in England and across Europe, but only if you don’t understand the Globalist Elite Cabal controls the outcomes of most elections. With that said, here’s the report from Discern Reporter compiled from corporate news outlets…


British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives encountered a mixed outcome in Friday’s elections, losing two crucial parliamentary seats but managing to retain Boris Johnson’s former constituency, dealing a setback to the opposition Labour Party.

The narrow victory in Johnson’s seat provided some respite for Sunak, who now aims to address the high inflation and cost-of-living crisis to narrow Labour’s significant lead in the polls before the upcoming national election expected next year.

Sunak, quick to celebrate the win, emphasized that the national election was far from a “done deal.” Speaking to reporters in a local cafe, he expressed determination to adhere to the plan and deliver for the people.

However, the challenge ahead became apparent with the loss of the once-safe Conservative seat of Selby and Ainsty in northeast England. Labour managed to overturn the largest Conservative majority in a by-election since World War Two, underscoring the demand for change.

Despite this setback, Sunak’s Conservatives narrowly retained the seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip near central London, avoiding the unwanted distinction of becoming the first British leader to lose three by-elections on a single day in over 50 years.

Conservative former minister David Jones stressed the need for economic policies to rebuild support in traditionally strong areas, believing that there is enough time, up to 18 months until the election, to achieve this.

Sunak, a former finance minister and investment banker, has focused on using his technocratic leadership to restore the party’s credibility after last year’s scandals forced Johnson to resign, followed by Liz Truss’s short-lived tenure as the successor.

A series of challenges, including high inflation, economic stagnation, rising mortgage rates, industrial unrest, and lengthy waiting times in the state-run health service, have left the Conservatives prepared for the possibility of losing all three seats.

National opinion polls indicate that Sunak’s Conservatives are trailing Labour by around 20 points, making it difficult for the governing party to secure a fifth consecutive national election victory. However, Labour’s loss in Uxbridge indicates its struggle to secure a clear parliamentary majority.

Renowned pollster John Curtice suggests that a hung parliament is the most likely outcome of a national vote and that Keir Starmer might face more internal party debate about his cautious approach to public finances and policy decisions.

The Uxbridge by-election was triggered by Johnson’s surprise decision to quit parliament after facing accusations of making misleading statements about parties held in Downing Street during the pandemic.

In the election results, the opposition to the extension of London’s ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) to suburban areas, like Uxbridge, proved beneficial for the Conservatives. They won the Uxbridge seat and hope it will support their candidate in the upcoming London mayoral election.

Overall, the results revealed the Conservatives’ vulnerabilities in rural and traditional strongholds, with losses in Selby and Ainsty in Yorkshire and Somerton and Frome in southwest England, respectively.

While Labour’s loss in Uxbridge indicates the potential fragility of their lead in the polls, the Conservatives continue to face challenges in retaining voters in southern regions.

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While America Pushes for Child Genital Mutilation, Even England Is Pumping the Brakes https://americanconservativemovement.com/while-america-pushes-for-child-genital-mutilation-even-england-is-pumping-the-brakes/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/while-america-pushes-for-child-genital-mutilation-even-england-is-pumping-the-brakes/#respond Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:13:54 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=183677 Editor’s Commentary: I never thought I’d be looking to the British healthcare system as something we should look to for guidance, but when it comes to genital mutilation of children, they’re heading in the right direction by placing restrictions on what can be done. As for the United States, our healthcare system seems to be pushing for as many gender surgeries performed on children as possible.

On today’s episode of The JD Rucker Show, I talked about this and why it makes me more upset than just about anything happening in this country today. Below is an article by Lily Zhou from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times. Here’s my commentary:

NHS to Tighten Rules on Puberty Blockers, Social Transitioning of Children’s Gender

Puberty blockers will only be given to children under a formal research protocol, new draft guidelines published on Thursday by National Health Service (NHS) England said.

The draft “interim service specification for specialist gender dysphoria services for children and young people” also restricted the encouragement of using “social transitioning”—such as using pronouns inconsistent with one’s biological sex and adopting the appearance of the opposite sex.

It is part of NHS England’s transition from having a single gender identity development service (GIDS) centre to multiple regional centres as the existing GIDS at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is set to close by next spring after an official report in February found issues around safety.

The interim review on Tavistock GIDS was carried out by top British paediatrician and past president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Dr. Hilary Cass.

At the time, Cass expressed deep concerns about the affirmative model, concluding that primary and secondary care staff have had to adopt an “unquestioning affirmative approach.”

Two Phase 1 services will be set up to replace the Tavistock center, one in London and one in the Northwest.

They will operate under the interim service specification until new service specification is formed in 2023/24 after Cass publishes her final report.

NHS England said it will collect feedback on the draft guidelines until Dec. 4.

In the draft (pdf), NHS England clarified that social transition should “only be considered where the approach is necessary for the alleviation of, or prevention of, clinically significant distress or significant  impairment in social functioning and the young person is able to fully comprehend the implications of affirming a social transition.”

NHS England said the change is in line with Cass’s recommendation that “early social transition” should be viewed as an “active intervention” rather than “a neutral act” because “it may have significant effects on the child or young person in terms of their psychological functioning.”

The guidance added that “gender incongruence” in young children, which it defines as “a discrepancy between birth-assigned sex and gender identity,” does not persist into adolescence in most cases.

Regarding hormone treatment, NHS England said it’s developing proposals for prospectively enrolling children and adolescents into a formal research programme “with adequate follow-up into adulthood,” and that it will only commission GnRHa (gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist), a type of puberty blocker, in the context of a formal research protocol.

Four “substantive” changes are included in the draft.

Experts in paediatric medicine, autism, neurodisability, and mental health will be added to the clinical team currently comprised of specialist social workers, family therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, paediatric and adolescent endocrinologists, and clinical nurse practitioners.

The new draft guidance also specified that the clinical lead for the service will be a medical doctor, while current guidance doesn’t make such specification.

Changes are made to the progression through the clinical pathway to make it more “structured,” and GPs and NHS professionals will have to be involved in the referrals to GIDS.

Owen Evans contributed to this report.

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The Dark and Ugly Past of the Climate Crisis King https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-dark-and-ugly-past-of-the-climate-crisis-king/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/the-dark-and-ugly-past-of-the-climate-crisis-king/#respond Sat, 10 Sep 2022 20:48:45 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=180608 The death of Queen Elizabeth II marks the beginning of the reign of King Charles III. This family is one of the most evil in the world and now their globalist elite patriarch is even more powerful than he already was.

This video by Greg Reese with Banned.Video and Infowars should help those who are new to the evil of the Royal Family to realize what has happened so we can better understand what is going to happen moving forward.

The rise of King Charles III is arguably the most important and concerning news coming out of the globalist war since Klaus Schwab launched the 4th Industrial Revolution in 2015, sparking the basis for The Great Reset and taking Agenda 2030 from being a thought experiment to an achievable goal of pure evil. Americans and citizens of the world must wake up to what’s happening before it’s too late.

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Queen Elizabeth II Has Died https://americanconservativemovement.com/queen-elizabeth-ii-has-died/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/queen-elizabeth-ii-has-died/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2022 17:38:50 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=180407 According to the Royal Family’s Twitter account:

The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.

Prince Charles will be crowned. According to WaPo:

Charles, as the queen’s eldest son, at the time of her death will inherit the sovereign title and job as head of the Commonwealth, along with other assets such as land and property.

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Globalist Takeover: New Sri Lankan President, UK PM Candidates Are World Economic Forum Members https://americanconservativemovement.com/globalist-takeover-new-sri-lankan-president-uk-pm-candidates-are-world-economic-forum-members/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/globalist-takeover-new-sri-lankan-president-uk-pm-candidates-are-world-economic-forum-members/#comments Wed, 27 Jul 2022 08:05:12 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=177085 The globalists are slowly but surely taking over the world through members of the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Ranil Wickremesinghe, the New Sri Lankan president, and Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, the U.K.’s top two candidates as prime minister, are all part of the WEF program. (Related: World Economic Forum’s “Class of 2021” exposed: Klaus Schwab’s effort to remake globe in authoritarian image continues.)

Wickremesinghe is a former prime minister, deputy minister of Foreign Affairs and minister of Youth Affairs and Employment of Sri Lanka. He was elected by the Parliament as acting President of Sri Lanka after his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country and resigned following a people’s uprising against the government.

The 73-year-old six-time prime minister received 134 votes in the 225-member House while his closest rival and ruling party leader Dullas Alahapperuma got 82 votes.

Wickremesinghe will have a mandate to serve out the remaining term of Rajapaksa, which ends in November 2024. The voting done by secret ballot was held amid tight security in the wake of boiling tensions in the island nation ignited by economic and political crisis.

Wickremesinghe, however, is not very popular with the protesting Sri Lankans. Just over a week ago, thousands of people protesting the government’s mismanagement of the economy called for Wickremesinghe’s resignation as prime minister.

Following the protests, Wickremesinghe offered to step down as the pressure increased. But that changed when Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka and he was elected as acting president by the Parliament.

Wickremesinghe will now try to bring the island nation out of its worst economic crisis in decades and it will not only require tough decisions but the support of the people.

“So, a lot of people think he doesn’t even have the credibility to be part of Parliament, much less to be a president. Many people saw this Parliament and government as out-of-touch, corrupt and illegitimate,” said Alan Keenan, visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.

UK PM candidates are on the side of globalists

Meanwhile, the U.K. is up for another election with Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing that he has stepped down from his position recently. The top two candidates to replace him, Truss and Sunak, are on the same side when it comes to the globalist agenda.

Truss is currently the secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, as well as minister for Women and Equalities. She was elected as the Conservative MP for southwest Norfolk in 2010 and also served as secretary for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. She has also been a Lord chancellor, secretary of State for Justice and chief secretary to the Treasury.

Sunak, on the other hand, was previously appointed as chancellor of the Exchequer, chief secretary to the Treasury and Parliamentary undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

He was elected Conservative MP for Richmond (Yorks) in 2015 and served as Parliamentary private secretary at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Both are long-term allies of the outgoing PM and WEF associates.

Backbench committee leader Sir Graham Brady will declare the final round of voting for parliamentarians in the race to replace Johnson, who is expected to commence the transfer of power on or before September 5.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage called Sunak “the great globalist” and Truss as “Theresa May 2.0,” alluding to the former U.K. Prime Minister.

“The great globalist, the man who has family links and interests with businesses in China, who is happy working hand-in-glove with the big banks, who has helped raised our taxes to the highest in 70 years,” Farage said, referring to Sunak.

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Watch the video below to know more about the true plans of the World Economic Forum.

This video is from the Rick Langley channel on Brighteon.com.

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Boris Johnson Resigns as British Prime Minister https://americanconservativemovement.com/boris-johnson-has-resigned-as-british-prime-minister/ https://americanconservativemovement.com/boris-johnson-has-resigned-as-british-prime-minister/#respond Thu, 07 Jul 2022 11:00:13 +0000 https://americanconservativemovement.com/?p=175275 The western world was shaken Thursday as Boris Johnson resigned as Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Sky News said, “This is the weirdest cabinet reshuffle I’ve known of.”

ITV reported, “Boris Johnson and Tory ministers resigning are entitled to £420,000 of severance pay, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Ellis confirms. Labour MP Rupa Huq asked if they ‘will be forfeiting their right to this? Because we do not reward failure.'”

PA Media reported, “Downing Street has appointed Kit Malthouse as Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster, the most senior minister in the Cabinet Office after the Prime Minister.”

An article by our Lily Zhou from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times posted the background just prior to Johnson’s resignation:

Johnson to Address Nation After Reports He Will Resign

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will address the nation on Thursday, Downing Street confirmed, amid reports he will resign.

It comes as more than 53 government ministers and ministerial aides quit over Johnson’s handling of sexual misconduct allegations against a former deputy chief whip.

A Downing Street spokesman said Johnson “will make a statement to the country today.”

According to the BBC, citing an unnamed source from Johnson’s office, Johnson has agreed to stand down.

In a statement posted on Twitter on Thursday morning, Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi said he, alongside other ministers, had “made clear” to Johnson in private on Wednesday that “he should leave with dignity.”

“I am heartbroken that he hasn’t listened and that he is now undermining the incredible achievements of the government at this late hour,” Zahawi’s statement read.

Zahawi said no one would forget “getting Brexit done,” keeping Jeremy Corbyn out of government, the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and its support for Ukraine, but “the country deserves a government that is not only stable, but which acts with integrity.”

“Prime Minister, you know in your heart what the right thing to do is, and go now,” the letter concluded.

New Education Secretary Resigns

By Thursday morning, at least 53 Conservative MPs had resigned from their government roles, including newly appointed Education Secretary Michelle Donelan.

Donelan was appointed on Wednesday to replace Zahawi as he had been appointed chancellor of the exchequer.

It followed the shock resignations of Health Secretary Sajid Javid and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak on Tuesday evening, which started the snowballing of resignations.

By Thursday morning, five Cabinet ministers has resigned, including Javid, Sunak, Donelan, Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis, and Wales Secretary Simon Hart.

Additionally, 22 ministers, 21 parliamentary private secretaries, four trade envoys have resigned, and Conservative Party vice-chair Bim Afolami.

The mass-resignation was triggered on Tuesday after Johnson admitted that it was a “mistake” to keep former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher in government roles despite sexual misconduct allegations against him.

Downing Street stated last week that Johnson wasn’t aware of any formal complaints against Pincher, only to admit this week that the prime minister was told about an investigation and had forgotten about it.

Reading a personal statement on his resignation in Parliament on Wednesday, Javid said “enough is enough.”

He also said ministers who didn’t resign “will have their own reasons,” but “it is a choice. … Not doing something is an active decision.”

On Thursday morning, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace wrote on Twitter: “A number of us have an obligation to keep this country safe,no matter who is PM. The Party has a mechanism to change leaders and that is the mechanism which I advise colleagues to use. In the meantime, the public would not forgive us if we left these Offices of State empty.”

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