LONDON — At 7.30am local time on Tuesday, Boris Johnson left the blackened doors of 10 Downing Street and, amid cheers from gathered supporters, walked to the podium to deliver his farewell speech.
“That’s it, folks,” the outgoing British leader said at the start of his seven-minute speech, in which he called for the Conservative Party to rally behind his successor, Liz Trass, and listed his achievements of the government. Among them he chose to highlight: an early option to supply Ukraine with arms after the Russian invasion, which he said could have changed the course of the war, “finished Brexit” and “finished Brexit as quickly as possible”. [coronavirus] Launch a vaccine in Europe. “