Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that he will will be stepping down once arrangements for choosing his successor have been finalised.
The Tories took an overnight battering in the polls with the party being completely wiped out across Greater Manchester and performing poorly across the rest of the country.
Speaking from a rather dryer Downing Street lectern ahead of visiting Buckingham Palace to tend his resignation to the King, he apologised to the people of the country.
With his wife Akshata Murty watching on, he said:
“To the country I would like to say first and foremost I am sorry”
“I have heard your anger, your disappointment and I take responsibility”
“This is a difficult day at the end of a number of difficult days but I leave this job honoured to have been your Prime Minister.
“In this job his (Keir Starmer) successes will be all our successes.
“Whatever our disagreements in this campaign he is a decent, public spirited man who I respect”.
Mr Sunak then left to tend his resignation to the king in order to make way for Labour’s victorious Sir Keir Starmer who will take control of the keys of Number 10 and the reigns of the country.
