⚡️ Defense Secretary Ben Wallace withdraws support for PM, does not resign

⚡️ Caroline Johnson resigns as Vice Chair

⚡️⚡️ UK media: Prime Minister Boris Johnson agrees to resign, statement expected within hours

⚡️ Sky News reports citing source that new leader of UK Conservative Party will be appointed by October

⚡️ Boris Johnson is set to make a statement later in the day, according to Sky News, citing a spokesman for Number 10

⚡️ According to No 10 sources, BoJo, in a conversation with chair of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee Sir Graham Brady, has agreed to resign

⚡️Sterling gains on unconfirmed reports UK PM Boris Johnson will resign today

⚡️ Labour leader Starmer celebrates expected resignation of BoJo

WATCH | View outside Downing Street 10 as BoJo expected to announce resignation

Earlier, sources reported that Johnson had agreed to resign. A statement from Downing Street on the PM's resignation is expected soon

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Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister of Scotland, is not sure it is a good idea to give BoJo the opportunity to serve as caretaker PM while his successor as Tory leader is chosen. She also believes Johnson was never suitable for the post of PM and that the Tories should not have elected him as leader or supported him in office for so long

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❗️Environment minister Rebecca Pow has resigned

⚡Liz Truss reportedly cuts Indonesia trip short, preparing statement

⚡️ Boris Johnson's statement expected at around 11 a.m. GMT

⚡️Johnson reportedly begins appointing acting government members and they are agreeing to take office

New ministerial appointments to be announced shortly, Sky News reported, citing a Downing Street official

Sergey Lavrov has also met with Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu - FM of Republic of Türkiye. Neither Russian foreign ministry nor Turkish officials have specified which topics the two diplomats are discussing, but a brief exchange can be heard in the beginning with Çavuşoğlu asking his Russian colleague whether he visited many countries before Indonesia, and Lavrov replying "Two", since he was in Mongolia and Vietnam earlier this week . While many bilateral talks were being held on 7 July, the organizers have scheduled the two main sessions of the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting for Friday.