{"id":69084,"date":"2022-07-06T13:37:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T13:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/sajid-javid-says-the-problem-starts-at-the-top-and-that-is-not-going-to-change-as-boris-johnson-vows-to-keep-going-live"},"modified":"2022-07-06T13:37:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T13:37:29","slug":"sajid-javid-says-the-problem-starts-at-the-top-and-that-is-not-going-to-change-as-boris-johnson-vows-to-keep-going-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/sajid-javid-says-the-problem-starts-at-the-top-and-that-is-not-going-to-change-as-boris-johnson-vows-to-keep-going-live","title":{"rendered":"Sajid Javid says &#8216;the problem starts at the top and that is not going to change&#8217; as Boris Johnson vows to &#8216;keep going&#8217; &#8211; live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2.36pm BST Badenoch, O&#8217;Brien, Burghart, Rowley and Lopez all quit as ministers in joint resignation This is a novelty: five ministers have resigned at once, all signing a joint resignation letter saying &#8220;it has become increasingly clear that the government cannot function given the issues that have come to light&#8221;. They say Boris Johnson should resign. The five ministers are: Kemi Badenoch, the equalities minister (described by the ConservativeHome website recently as a possible outsider candidate for the Tory leadership); Neil O&#8217;Brien, the levelling up minister; Alex Burghart, the skills minister; Lee Rowley, the business minister; and Julia Lopez, the minister for media, data and digital infrastructure. These five are regarded as rising stars, and so this letter is not dissimilar to the Jenrick\/Sunak\/Dowden article from 2019 mentioned earlier. (See 2.11pm .) With regret, I am resigning from my position as Minister for Media, Data &amp; Digital Infrastructure. I am grateful to the Prime Minister for giving me the opportunity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former health secretary tells Commons PM will cause lasting damage to Tories; PM says he will carry on despite &#8216;difficult circumstances&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[305,42],"class_list":["post-69084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-brexit","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}