The pressure had mounted on Johnson to step down both internally within the party (with the resignations of multiple high-profile MPs) as well as from the broader public. Boris Johnson admitted; “In hindsight, it was the wrong thing to do. I apologise to everyone who’s been badly affected by it”.

Following reports of his resignation, the party leader of Labour Keir Starmer wrote; “It is good news for the country that Boris Johnson has resigned as Prime Minister. But it should have happened long ago. He was always unfit for office. He has been responsible for lies, scandal and fraud on an industrial scale. And all those who have been complicit should be utterly ashamed.”

However, as the news spread across the UK like the mishandled outbreak of a deadly virus, the music industry felt compelled to weigh in with its two cents on the matter. Check out the best examples in the posts below:

bye boris. good riddance.

— YUNGBLUD (@yungblud) July 7, 2022

very glad to see boris go now i’d like all the conservatives to go next — olly alexander (@alexander_olly) July 7, 2022

Yep https://t.co/GAgpbd183E

— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) July 7, 2022

Ironically, I don’t think there’ll be much of a leaving party — Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) July 6, 2022

Celebrate, sure, but don’t underestimate the likelihood that we’ll be going from one evil fuck to an even more evil fuck.

— Rebecca Lucy Taylor (@SELFESTEEM___) July 7, 2022

WHATS THIS STATEMENT GUFF. FUCK RIGHT OFF. FUCK RIGHT OFF YOU USELESS PIG CUNT. — Sleaford Mods (@sleafordmods) July 7, 2022

I too have an opinion on the ousting of our primeminister Boris Johnson, but I am saving it for my memoirs. Hold tight!

— Yard Act (@YardActBand) July 7, 2022

off you fuck boris — easy life (@easylife) July 7, 2022

NoJo

— simone marie (@simonemarie4) July 7, 2022

Congratulations to the many MPs and cabinet ministers who finally noticed after decades of evidence that the guy they had enthusiastically backed was a terrible self-serving country-denigrating tool. Either way at least we have flushed the stool. — Shaun Keaveny (@shaunwkeaveny) July 7, 2022

In a way it would be inspirational if Liz Truss was to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Children could see how someone could ascend to the highest office in the country despite not being able to find their arse with both hands.

— Shaun Keaveny (@shaunwkeaveny) July 7, 2022

In his final address as PM outside Number 10 as onlookers hissed like a gang of street cats, Johnson said; “It is clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and so a new Prime Minister. I’m immensely proud of the achievements of this government in getting Brexit done, to settling our relations with the continent… reclaiming the power for this country to make its own laws in Parliament. To [the] new leader… I say I will give you as much support as I can. And to you, the British public. I know that there will be many people who are relieved and perhaps quite a few who will also be disappointed. And I want you to know how sad I am to be giving up the best job in the world. But them’s the breaks.”

In response, Bush was quoted as saying: “We have a female Prime Minister here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she’s wonderful. She’s a very intelligent woman but I don’t see much to fear.” She continued, “I think it’s the best thing that’s happened to us in a long time.” She continued, “I will say it is great to have a woman in charge of the country.”

Her comments were then interpreted, at the time, as an endorsement of Brexit and conservative party policy. However, writing on her website, Bush said her comments were quoted “out of context” and that she found the experience “deeply frustrating”. She continued: “At the time I discussed the idea of responding to it with close friends and we all agreed it was best to let it go.”

However, the quote continued to resurface, most recently in coverage of her remastered back catalogue, and a book of her lyrics, which was published last month, which has prompted her to issue a clarification. Bush clarified that her, “response to the interviewer was not meant to be political but rather was in the defence of women in power.”

“I felt he was putting a really negative slant on powerful women, referring to a witch hunt involving Hillary Clinton. In response I said that we had a woman in charge of our country, and that I felt it was a good thing to have women in power.

“I should have been clearer when I then said it was the best thing that had happened to us for a long time – because I greatly disliked the behaviour of the previous PM [David Cameron], who at that point I felt had abandoned us and everybody felt angry and let down,” she said.

She added that, with the latest resurfacing of the article, it “could make it seem like I am a Tory supporter, which I want to make clear I am not”. The star concluded her statement by saying: “I won’t be commenting further on this, but feel it’s become so pervasive that I felt I needed to clarify this matter once and for all.”

The star is notoriously private, she rarely gives interviews and talks about politics even less frequently. However, in 1990 she wrote the score for an episode of the TV comedy ‘The Comic Strip Presents…’ that featured a homage to Labour politician Ken Livingstone.