UK PM Boris Johnson vows to ‘keep going’, says he’ll stay in job despite further resignations from his own party

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that he plans to stay in power despite the resignations of two top Cabinet ministers and a slew of more junior officials.

Johnson told lawmakers that “the job of a prime minister in difficult circumstances when you’ve been handed a colossal mandate is to keep going.”

Johnson said he “could not disagree more” with a lawmaker from his own party who had called on him to resign and put the national interest before his own.

David Davis, a Conservative lawmaker who had previously called on Johnson to resign, told parliament that he was again asking Johnson: “to do the honourable thing, to put the interests of the nation before his own interest, and before … it does become impossible for government to do its job.”

Johnson said he did not believe that it was against the national interest for him to remain as prime minister.

“I thank him very much for the point he is made again. I just could not disagree with him more,” Johnson said.