Boris Johnson约翰逊辞职演说全文｜中英对照

英国首相约翰逊（Boris Johnson，又译作强生）7月7日宣布辞职，以下是他7月7日宣布辞职后，在唐宁街首相府门外发布的演说全文。

谢谢你，谢谢您！

现在显然议会保守党的意愿是该党应该有一位新领导人，因此应有一位新首相。

而且我已经同意布雷迪爵士（Sir Graham Brady）的意见，我们后座议员的主席，现在应该开始选择新领导人的过程。

时间表将在下周公布，我今天任命了一个内阁，而我将，在任直到新领导人人就位为止。

我想对2019年为投票给我们的数百万人说，他们当中的许多人是第一次投票给保守党，感谢你们的令人难以置信的授权，这是自1987年以来保守党获得最大多数的席次，自1979 年以来最大的选票份额。

我在过去几天如此努力地继续亲自完成这一任务的原因不仅是因为我想这样做，而是我觉得这是我的工作，我的职责 ，我对你的义务，去继续我们在2019年已应承的事。

当然，我为本届政府所取得的成就感到无比自豪，从完成英国脱欧到确定我们与欧洲大陆半个多世纪的关系。

（脱欧让英国）收回这个国家在议会制定自己的法律的权力。 让我们所有人渡过这场大流行病（新型冠状病毒肺炎）的难关。 在欧洲以最快的速度推出疫苗，以最快的速度解除封锁（全国封城），并在过去几个月中引领西方对抗普京对乌克兰的侵略。

现在让我对乌克兰人民说，只要有需要，在英国的我们将继续支持你们争取自由的斗争。

与此同时，在这个国家，我们一直在推进一个世纪以来最大的基础设施、技能和技术投资计划。

因为如果我对人有一个洞见，那就是天才、才能、热情和想像力在整个人群中是均匀分布的，但机会却不是。

这就是为什么我们必须不断升级，不断释放英国每个地区的潜力。

如果我们能在这个国家做到这一点，我们将成为欧洲最繁荣的国家。

在过去的几天里，我试图说服我的同事，当我们做到这么多，当我们有如此庞大的任务，而实际上我们在民意调查只落后几个百分点时，更换政府是很奇怪的——即使是在经过几个月的无情侮辱后的半路中途，以及国内和国际经济形势如此困难的情况下。

我很遗憾没有在这些争论中取得成功，当然，不能亲自带领这么多想法和项目是很痛苦的。

但正如我们在威斯敏斯特（指国会大楼）看到的那样，群体本能是强大的，当群众移动时，它就会移动，而我在政治上的朋友们，没有人是不可或缺的。

我们卓越的达尔文体系将产生另一位同样致力于带领这个国家度过艰难时期的领导人，不仅帮助家庭渡过难关，而且改变和改进我们做事的方式。

减轻企业和家庭的负担，是的，减税，因为这是产生增长和收入的方式，我们需要为伟大的公共服务付费。

我对（将上任的）新领导人说，无论他或她是谁，我说我会尽可能多地支持你。

我对英国民众说的是——我知道会有很多人（因为我辞职）松了一口气，也许还有不少人也会感到失望。

我想让你知道，放弃世界上最好的工作，我有多难过。但这就是人生。

我要感谢卡丽（Carrie，约翰逊妻子）和我们的孩子们，感谢我的所有家庭成员，他们不得不将就这么长的时间。

我要感谢无与伦比的英国公务员提供的所有帮助和支持，感谢我们的警察，我们的紧急服务，当然还有我们出色的NHS，他们在关键时刻帮助延长了我的任期。

还有我们在世界各地备受推崇的武装部队和机构，以及我们孜孜不倦的保守党成员和支持者，他们无私地助选使我们的民主成为可能。

我要感谢这里（首相府）、契克斯（Chequers，意指乡间首相别墅）和首相府的出色工作人员。

最重要的是，我要感谢英国公众，感谢你们给予我的巨大特权。

我想让你知道，从现在到新首相就位，政府仍将以公众的利益为依归，国家政府将继续工作。

当首相本身就是一种教育。我去过英国的每一个地方。

除了我们自然世界的美丽，我发现有很多人拥有如此无限的英国原创性，愿意以新的方式解决老问题，我知道即使现在有时看起来很黑暗，我们的未来在一起就是金光是灿烂的。

非常感谢大家。

“Thank you, thank you!

“It is clearly now the will of the Parliamentary Conservative party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister.

“And I’ve agreed with Sir Graham Brady, the chairman of our back bench MPs, that the process of choosing that new leader should begin now.

“The timetable will be announced next week and I’ve today appointed a Cabinet to serve, as I will, until a new leader is in place.

“So I want to say to the millions of people who voted for us in 2019, many of them voting Conservative for the first time, thank you for that incredible mandate, the biggest Conservative majority since 1987, the biggest share of the vote since 1979.

“And the reason I have fought so hard in the last few days to continue, to deliver that mandate in person, was not just because I wanted to do so but because I felt it was my job, my duty, my obligation to you, to continue to do what we promised in 2019.

“And of course I’m immensely proud of the achievements of this government, from getting Brexit done to settling our relations with the continent for over half a century.

“Reclaiming the power for this country to make its own laws in Parliament. Getting us all through the pandemic. Delivering the fastest vaccine rollout in Europe, the fastest exit from lockdown, and in the last few months, leading the West in standing up to Putin’s aggression in Ukraine.

“And let me say now to the people of Ukraine, I know that we in the UK will continue to back your fight for freedom for as long as it takes.

“At the same time, in this country, we’ve been pushing forward a vast programme of investment, in infrastructure and skills and technology, the biggest in a century.

“Because if I have one insight into human beings it is that genius and talent and enthusiasm, imagination, are evenly distributed throughout the population but opportunity is not.

“And that’s why we must keep levelling up, keep unleashing the potential of every part of the UK.

“And if we can do that in this country we will be the most prosperous in Europe.

“In the last few days I’ve tried to persuade my colleagues that it would be eccentric to change governments when we’re delivering so much, when we have such a vast mandate and when we’re actually only a handful of points behind in the polls.

“Even in mid-term after quite a few months of pretty relentless sledging and when the economic scene is so difficult domestically and internationally.

“I regret not to have been successful in those arguments and of course it’s painful not to be able to see through so many ideas and projects myself.

“But as we’ve seen at Westminster the herd instinct is powerful and when the herd moves it moves, and my friends in politics no one is remotely indispensable.

“Our brilliant and Darwinian system will produce another leader equally committed to taking this country forward through tough times, not just helping families to get through it but changing and improving the way we do things.

“Cutting burdens on businesses and families and yes, cutting taxes, because that is the way to generate the growth and the income we need to pay for great public services.

“And to that new leader, whoever he or she may be, I say I will give you as much support as I can.

“And to you the British public - I know 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.

“I want to thank Carrie and our children, all the members of my family who have had to put up with so much for so long.

“I want to thank the peerless British civil service for all the help and support you’ve given, our police, our emergency services, and of course our fantastic NHS who at a critical moment helped to extend my own period in office.

“As well as our armed services and our agencies that are so admired around the world, and our indefatigable Conservative Party members and supporters whose selfless campaigning makes our democracy possible.

“I want to thank the wonderful staff here, at Chequers, here at No10, and our fantastic prop force detectives - the one group, by the way, who never leak.

“Above all I want to thank you, the British public, for the immense privilege you have given me.

“And I want you to know that from now on until the new Prime Minister is in place, your interests will be served and the government and the country will be carried on.

“Being Prime Minister is an education in itself. I've traveled to every part of the UK.

“And in addition to the beauty of our natural world I've found so many people possessed of such boundless British originality, and so willing to tackle old problems in new ways, I know that even if things can sometimes seem dark now, our future together is golden.

“Thank you all very much.”