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As Boris Johnson departs, UK takes stock of his messy legacy

FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson waves his folder at the media as he leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, in London, April 27, 2022. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File) FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, arrives with MP's and Peers for a service of remembrance for British MP David Amess at St Margaret's Church in Westminster in London, Oct. 18, 2021. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File) FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks with his wife Carrie during arrivals for the G7 meeting at the Carbis Bay Hotel in Carbis Bay, St. Ives, Cornwall, England, June 12, 2021. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool, File) FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson tastes whisky during a general election campaign visit to Diageo's Roseisle Distillery near Elgin, north east Scotland, Nov. 7, 2019. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/Pool via AP, File) FILE - Prime Minister Boris Johnson reacts while leading a virtual news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic, inside 10 Downing Street in central London on Jan. 26, 2021. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (Justin Tallis/Pool via AP, File) FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, attend a meeting during the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (Phil Noble/Pool via AP, File) FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson waves at the media as he leaves with his dog Dilyn after voting at a polling station in London, for local council elections, Thursday, May 5, 2022. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File) FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomes Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to 10 Downing Street in London, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File) FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he departs from Hudson Yards, in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the Elysee Palace, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019 in Paris. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File) FILE - Conservative Party leadership candidate Boris Johnson, center, eats an ice cream in Barry Island, Wales on July 6, 2019, ahead of the Conservative party leadership hustings in Cardiff. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict now Prime Minister Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File) FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses with workers during a visit to Wilton Engineering Services, part of a General Election campaign trail stop in Middlesbrough, England, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File) FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson shakes hands with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker during a press point at EU headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File) FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks to the media next to a large inflatable of him, after Conservative Party candidate Jill Mortimer won the Hartlepool by-election, at Hartlepool Marina, in Hartlepool, north east England, Friday, May 7, 2021. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell, File) FILE - British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson participates in the Meeting of the Ministers of the Global Coalition on the Defeat of ISIS, Wednesday, March 22, 2017, at the State Department in Washington. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File) FILE - President Donald Trump and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson attend a working breakfast at the Hotel du Palais on the sidelines of the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) FILE - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlines his government's negotiating stance with the European Union after Brexit, during a key speech at the Old Naval College in Greenwich, London, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File) FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresses his supporters prior to boarding his General Election campaign trail bus in Manchester, England, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. The moving vans have already started arriving in Downing Street, as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Johnson. Debate about what mark he will leave on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File)