LONDON — Boris Johnson exited the black-lacquered door of Number 10 Downing Street at 7:30 a.m. local time Tuesday to the sound of cheers from his assembled supporters and walked to the lectern for his farewell speech.
“This is it, folks,” the outgoing British leader said as he began his seven-minute remarks, in which he called for the Conservative Party to unite behind his successor, Liz Truss, and listed the accomplishments of his government. Among those he chose to highlight: An early choice to deliver weapons to Ukraine after Russia’s invasion that he said may have changed the course of the war, getting “Brexit done,” and the “fastest [coronavirus] vaccine rollout in Europe.”