England’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has resigned.

Johnson said he would continue to serve until his party selects a new leader.

At least 59 conservative lawmakers have resigned in the last 24 hours.

Johnson mentioned that this was a “painful” moment and that he’d fought hard to avoid it.

“It is clear now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader … and therefore a new prime minister,” Johnson said.

He thanked the voters who gave him a landslide general election victory in December 2019, and said he’d resisted the calls to resign because “I felt it was my job, my duty, my obligation to you to continue to do what we promised in 2019.”

Johnson’s departure will be finalized by next week, and a new successor will be chosen.

Referring to the Conservative members of Parliament who turned against him he said, “The herd instinct is powerful and when the herd moves, it moves.”

Johnson said, “our brilliant and Darwinian system will produce another leader.” He promised to offer his successor his support.

Many of his lawmakers would prefer if he left sooner than that.

Johnson will remain in power until October.

Johnson’s countless scandals involving sexual allegations and the like, along with failed administrative policies have finally caught up with him.

“In the past few weeks, I have been trying to convince my colleagues it would be eccentric to change governments when we have achieved so much,” he said in his speech outside No. 10 Downing St. amid loud booing from the crowd nearby. “I regret not to be successful in those arguments and, of course, it’s painful not to be able to see through those projects myself,” said the disgraced Prime Minister.

Johnson also promised the United Kingdom that support for Ukraine would continue under his successor.

Boris Johnson previously survived a vote of “No Confidence,” but lost the respect of many in the United Kingdom.