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- Title
'I Have Sadly Concluded That I Must Go' – The Art of Resignations in British Politics.
- Authors
Keaveney, Paula
- Abstract
The previous day Javid - until then Health Secretary under Boris Johnson - announced his resignation. Graph: © Jeff Gilbert / Alamy Stock Photo British politics has a long history of crucial ministerial resignations - as Boris Johnson's discovered. The then Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell resigned from Gordon Brown's government as polls were closing in local and European elections in 2009. Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith resigned from the David Cameron government in 2016 over, in his own words, welfare cuts.
- Subjects
BRITISH art; NO confidence motions; PRACTICAL politics; FOREIGN ministers (Cabinet officers)
- Publication
Political Insight, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 3, p30
- ISSN
2041-9058
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/20419058221127470