British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Thursday that he would resign, ending an unprecedented political crisis over his future that has roiled the United Kingdom in recent weeks. "It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary conservative party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister," Johnson said outside his office at 10 Downing St. in London. Johnson said the process to select his successor would begin immediately and a timetable for the change in leadership would be announced next week. He said it was "painful" for him to leave office but conceded he had failed to push back against an onslaught of opposition from his own party ministers urging him to resign. Johnson’s departure will end his three-year turn as the British leader. It comes after days of turmoil triggered by his evolving explanations of what he knew about a sexual misconduct scandal involving one of his allies. #borisjohnson #unitedkingdom