Mr Johnson will remain as Prime Minister until a successor is in place, expected to be by the time of the Conservative Party conference in October.
The Irish Examiner bid farewell to 'Eton's greatest mess', comparing his fall to watching posh neighbours brawl in their garden, calling it: 'Just so enjoyable... So deeply, satisfyingly pleasurable.'
A lot of people were not sure that there was an apology or that it even sounded like a resignation from Boris Johnson.
Madame Tussauds in London also updated their 10 Downing Street display with a sign saying ‘vacancy’.
James Blunt is never one to miss a joke on Twitter, this time it came at the expense of the outgoing PM Boris Johnson.
It is safe to say that the PM is not liked in Russia, even though his links to the country have long been under scrutiny.
"I sometimes want to applaud someone who manages to put an opinion in a tweet, then contradict that opinion in the same tweet. It’s next level stupidity."
“Now Conservative infighting and sheer incompetence has cost the taxpayer yet more money during this cost-of-living crisis."
"He is like some illegal settler in the Sinai desert, lashing himself to the radiator", he said.