Boris Johnson's time as Prime Minister will soon be over after just under three years in charge of the country.
He confirmed he will soon exit Downing Street following a wave of resignations from his Cabinet and facing increasing pressure from his own MPs to step away.
The 1,079th day of Johnson's premiership was a microcosm of some of the most chaotic episodes of his stint inside Number 10.
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Questions have repeatedly been asked about the 58-year-old Prime Minister's integrity.
Here are 10 of the biggest scandals that faced Johnson:
'Let the bodies pile high'
In April last year it emerged that Boris Johnson said he would rather allow "bodies (to) pile high in their thousands" than impose another national lockdown across the UK.
It's believed he made the comments just after the announcement of a second lockdown at the end of October in 2020.
The reports were strongly denied by Downing Street saying it was "just another lie".
The comments caused outrage with many calling for him to apologise.
Not wearing face masks
Boris Johnson issued an apology in November when he was snapped not wearing a face mask while on a visit to a hospital in Hexham.
He told MPs: "There were barely 30 seconds when I wasn’t wearing a mask.
"I walked out of the room mistakenly not wearing it. I put it on as soon as I realised I had made the mistake. I apologise for that."
During the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow he was again pictured not wearing a mask while sat next to Sir David Attenborough.
According to the COP26 guidance attendees were told a mask must be on at all times except when eating, drinking, sitting in office/meeting spaces, conducting negotiations, giving speeches, or if medically exempt.
However it did say that "face coverings should be worn when sitting in theatre-style seating".
Euro 2020
The Prime Minister came under pressure in the lead up to and during Euro 2020 for failing to condemn fans who booed England players from taking the knee.
A number of Tory MPs and right-wing commentators were accused of stirring up more controversy which led Johnson to say the "whole country" needed to get behind the England team.
Johnson was also mocked for turning up to England's semi-final with Denmark wearing an England football top over his shirt and tie.
Matt Hancock
The former Health Secretary resigned the day after video footage emerged of him kissing an aide in his ministerial office in a breach of coronavirus restrictions.
Images and video showed Hancock in an embrace with aide Gina Coladangelo in May 2020, and Hancock was facing increasing pressure to quit over the breaking of social-distancing rules.
Boris Johnson was slammed by opposition and Tory MPs for not acting sooner to sack Hancock for breaching covid rules.
Dodging self-isolation
In July last year, Boris Johnson caved to public anger and agreed to self-isolate after having contact with health Secretary Sajid Javid who tested positive for covid.
He faced growing public fury after officials said Johnson and chancellor Rishi Sunak would avoid self-isolating like thousands of others because Downing Street took part in a pilot daily testing programme.
After widespread anger the Tory leader took just two hours and 42 minutes to perform a dramatic U-turn. He eventually did self-isolate.
Afghanistan
Boris Johnson's handling of the British evacuation from Afghanistan was slammed by opposition and Tory MPs as well as military veterans.
The Prime Minister was forced to admit his handling for the crisis would have been done better.
In an interview with broadcaster NBC, he said: "America has been there for 20 years and it’s a respectable argument to say that enough is enough. Look, I mean, could we have done it a bit differently? Maybe we could.”
Johnson was also criticised for allowing then foreign secretary Dominic Raab to remain on holiday while the Taliban rolled into the capital Kabul to take over the country.
Owen Paterson
In November, Johnson admitted it was a "total mistake" in trying to defend former North Shropshire MP Owen Paterson from punishment after he repeatedly broke lobbying rules.
In an evidence session he accepted that Paterson had done wrong.
It came after the PM attempted to rewrite the rules in order to get the former Environment Secretary off the hook. Johnson was slammed and performed yet another U-turn.
The scandal led to a by-election in December which the Lib Dems won. The swing of 34.2 per cent from Conservative to Lib Dem was the second largest since the war.
Lockdown fine
In April, Boris Johnson and his now former Chancellor Rishi Sunak were fined for attending the Prime Minister's birthday in Downing Street during the national lockdown.
Following the fine Johnson told the Commons: "I paid the fine immediately, and I offered the British people a full apology - and I take this opportunity on the first available sitting day to repeat my wholehearted apology to the House.
"As soon as I received the notice, I acknowledged the hurt and the anger - and I said that people had a right to expect better of their Prime Minister. And I repeat that, Mr Speaker, again in the House."
Queen apology
The Prime Minister was forced to publicly apologise to the Queen over two lockdown-breaking events held the night before the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral, where restrictions forced the monarch to sit alone.
Chris Pincher
While he survived scandals over former chief aide Dominic Cummings' infamous Barnard Castle trip during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the subsequent parties in Whitehall as Britons were locked down, and the refurbishment of his Downing Street flat which prompted the resignation of his ethics adviser, the allegations against former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher proved the final straw for Johnson.
Pincher quit after allegedly assaulting two men while drunk at London's Carlton Club.
Downing Street initially said Johnson had no knowledge of previous allegations against Pincher, but the Prime Minister later acknowledged he had been informed of inappropriate behaviour dating back to 2019, and said he regretted keeping him in government beyond that point.
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