Today, as they uploaded ever more humorous memes online, Britons continued to gorge on the political drama surrounding Boris Johnson’s resignation as prime minister.
In the past 24 hours, 57 MPs and ministers have resigned from their positions, eventually driving Mr. Johnson out of his role as prime minister.
On Tuesday evening, Health Secretary Sajid Javid and Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced their resignations. Their departures prompted walkouts by more junior members of the Government; today’s resignations come from ministers Will Quince and Robin Walker.
Now that Mr Johnson’s time in Number 10 is coming to an end, dozens of memes making light of the situation were posted on Twitter.
The hashtag #BorisGoneson has begun to gain traction on the social media platform, with one user describing the ‘new Tory slogan’ as ‘Going, going, gone’.
One showed Nadine Dorries and Boris Johnson in a cartoon cave with the subtitles, ‘This is where I come to cry,’ with the Tweet reading: ‘Boris and Nadine running the UK alone’.
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