New UK finance minister Zahawi says PM Johnson must go

LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) – Britain’s new finance minister Nadhim Zahawi advised Boris Johnson to resign on Thursday, a lot less than 48 several hours after the prime minister promoted him to the job, indicating the crisis engulfing the authorities would only get even worse.

“This is not sustainable and it will only get worse, for you, for the Conservative Get together and most importantly of all the region,” Zahawi reported on Twitter immediately after much more than 50 ministers and aides resigned from the authorities.

“You have to do the ideal matter and go now.”

Zahawi did not say he had resigned, but reported he went to the key minister’s business in Downing Road with cupboard colleagues on Wednesday night to convey to Johnson to “depart with dignity”.

“I am heartbroken that he hasn’t listened and that he is now undermining the amazing achievements of this governing administration,” Zahawi mentioned in a letter.

“The region deserves a govt that is not only steady, but which functions with integrity. Prime Minister you know in your heart what the ideal detail to do is, and go now.”

Reporting by Kate Holton and Alistair Smout Enhancing by William James and Michael Holden

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