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Published 06:16 24 Jun 2022 BST
Updated 13:36 24 Jun 2022 BST
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"We cannot carry on with business as usual. Somebody must take responsibility and I have concluded that, in these circumstances, it would not be right for me to remain in office."
Responding to his resignation, Johnson said it had been a "pleasure" to work alongside Dowden and argued he had a "historic mandate" to unite the country despite the poor election results. The double defeat will raise further questions over the stability of Boris Johnson's premiership, who is currently in Rwanda for the Commonwealth summit. Speaking on Thursday, Johnson insisted that it would be “crazy” to step down even if he lost both by-elections - arguing he still had the support of his party. But on Friday morning, cracks began to show after Conservative MPs rallied behind their former chairman. Writing in a tweet, the Tory MP for Guildford and Cranleigh described him as a "fantastic colleague" who is "most certainly not responsible for these results". North Dorset's Simon Hoare, who sits as chairman Northern Ireland select committee, echoed Angela Richardson writing "Oliver Dowden is not to blame for these results. Since 2015 I have always been proud to call Oliver a friend. Never more so than today". https://twitter.com/AJRichardsonMP/status/1540206420599218177?s=20&t=ww1N9UU2RElACDjmJXReOQ Speaking to BBC Breakfast on Friday morning, Tory MP Sir Roger Gale reiterated sentiments posted online by his colleagues, arguing that Oliver Dowden resigned "because he can no longer defend the indefensible."All the animals shortlisted to feature on new banknotes
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