LONDON — Britain’s minister for kids and households resigned on Wednesday morning, changing into the newest in a rising exodus of officers from the scandal-engulfed executive of Top Minister Boris Johnson. Most effective two days previous, the minister, Will Quince, had stoutly defended Mr. Johnson’s function within the promotion of a Conservative lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct and over the top ingesting.

“With nice unhappiness and remorseful about, I’ve this morning tendered my resignation to the Top Minister when I authorized and repeated assurances on Monday to the media that have now been discovered to be erroneous,” Mr. Quince mentioned on Twitter.

Mr. Quince’s case laid naked considered one of Mr. Johnson’s vulnerabilities on this season of scandal: No longer simplest has the top minister been accused of dissembling and issuing false statements, however Downing Boulevard has additionally despatched out representatives to tv information studios to copy the ones misguided claims on behalf of Mr. Johnson.

In his commentary, Mr. Quince mentioned Downing Boulevard had given him a “express assurance” that Mr. Johnson had no longer been acutely aware of any “particular” allegation in opposition to the Conservative lawmaker, Chris Pincher, ahead of appointing him to the publish of the birthday celebration’s deputy leader whip this yr. Downing Boulevard later admitted that was once no longer true.

Robin Walker, the minister of state for varsity requirements, additionally stepped down on Wednesday, bringing up Mr. Johnson’s increasingly more tumultuous tenure, together with the resignation of Rishi Sunak as chancellor of the Exchequer and Sajid Javid as well being secretary.

“Sadly,” Mr. Walker wrote in a letter that he then posted on Twitter, “contemporary occasions have made it transparent to me that our nice birthday celebration, for which I’ve campaigned all of my grownup lifestyles, has grow to be distracted from its core missions via a constant focal point on questions over management.”

Mr. Walker added that the lack of Mr. Sunak and Mr. Javid — whom he described as “two of our broadest abilities” —  mirrored “a being worried narrowing of the large church that I imagine any Conservative executive must search to reach.”

Addressing Mr. Johnson within the letter, Mr. Walker wrote: “You received the boldness of your colleagues only a few weeks in the past, however the occasions and revelations since have undermined this. I’ve publicly supported you as chief of our birthday celebration and top minister, however I’m afraid I believe I will be able to accomplish that now not.”