The crisis of the British government .. The seventh minister resigns today, and Johnson is sticking to his refusal to step down

There have been successive resignations from the British government since the day before yesterday, Tuesday, and the number has risen until now to 7 ministers who have left their posts, the last of whom were this morning Brandon Lewis, Minister of State for Northern Ireland Affairs, Helen Whiteley, Minister in the Treasury (Finance), and Damian Hinds, Minister of State for Security and Borders, in When the prime minister refused to resign from his post, despite the escalation of calls inside and outside his government.

Al-Jazeera correspondent in London, Mina Harbelo, said that the resignations in the Johnson government included, within 48 hours, more than 50 ministers, state ministers and assistant ministers, including the ministers of interior, industry, finance, health, motherhood and childhood, as well as a large number of senior officials and Conservative MPs.

On Wednesday, ruling Conservative MP Simon Hart announced his resignation as Minister of State for Wales, and said in a letter to Johnson: "Colleagues have done their best in private and public to help you divert the ship, but unfortunately I feel we are past the point at which this can happen."

BBC political editor Chris Mason said on Wednesday that the British prime minister had sacked senior minister Michael Gove, the secretary of state for Housing and Communities, who media earlier reported had told Johnson he had to step down.

Minister of State for Culture and Information Nadine Doris submitted her resignation on Wednesday (Getty Images)

Invitations from within the government

Some ministers went to Downing Street to tell Johnson he had to go, and one encouraged him to make a dignified exit by setting a timetable for himself rather than facing a vote of no-confidence within the ruling party.

Several lawmakers said the question now was "when?", not whether he (Johnson) should step down.

On Wednesday, the Attorney General of England and Wales, Suella Braverman, called on Johnson to resign, and became the first among government ministers to say she would run to replace him in any Conservative leadership race. It is time for the prime minister to step down."

She added that she did not want to resign from her position, but "if there is a leadership competition, I will put my name in the ring."

These developments came at a time when the ruling Conservative Party has been accused of a series of abuses and irregularities in recent months, and the Prime Minister has been criticized for incompetence.

Al-Jazeera correspondent in London, Mina Harbelo, reported that Johnson's future is once again shrouded in doubt, with the state of tension increasing day after day, especially after the losses incurred by the party in the recent local elections.

She added that a number of ruling Conservative Party deputies are increasing pressure on Johnson to push him to step down, and are coordinating their efforts to change the party's regulations in order to hold a new internal vote of no-confidence in him, after he survived a vote held on the sixth of last June.

The resignations of ministers coincide with protests calling for Johnson to leave power (Anatolia)

But Johnson pledged - yesterday, Wednesday - in Parliament to continue to respond to calls for his resignation, saying that he would not leave the position, while his spokesman denied the existence of an intention to hold early elections.

And British media reported that a group of ministers met with Johnson and asked him to resign from his position, but he stressed his adherence to power, saying that the last thing the country needed was to hold early elections.

Earlier, Johnson, whose isolation seems to be increasing day by day, tried to use a parliamentary session to answer questions in an attempt to show the solidity of his position, repeating the justifications he gave about the latest scandal that damaged the image of his government and led to a crack in its ranks.

But his performance in answering lawmakers' questions was met with muted nods and, at times, outright laughter.

At one point, Johnson received a question from a member of his own party whether there were any circumstances at all that required him to resign.

Johnson responded by saying that he would resign only if the government could not continue to do its job.

Even Johnson's colleagues in government tried hard to stifle their laughter, as the opposition Labor leader mocked the government for being "lightweight".

"When times are tough ... this is exactly the moment when you expect the government to keep working, not pull out ... and to do the work and focus on the things that matter to the people," Johnson told MPs.

It should be noted that the British Prime Minister survived on the sixth of last June from a vote of no confidence in him within the Conservative Party, after 54 MPs from the party launched this procedure in the wake of what is known as “Partygate” or the party scandal, and the vote 211 Conservative MPs voted in favor of Johnson remaining in office, compared to 148 who refused.