NEXT week will officially herald the end of the tenure of Boris Johnson as Prime Minister.

Few could argue Mr Johnson has had overseen a turbulent period in British politics since his election as leader of the Conservative Party in 2019.

He re-opened Brexit negotiations and in early September controversially prorogued Parliament in an act the Supreme Court ruled unlawful.

After agreeing to a revised Brexit withdrawal agreement, which replaced the Irish backstop with a new Northern Ireland Protocol, but failing to win parliamentary support for the agreement, Mr Johnson called a snap election for December 2019 in which he led the Conservative Party to victory with 43.6 per cent of the vote, and the party's largest seat share since 1987.

On January 31 2020, the United Kingdom withdrew from the EU.

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The COVID-19 pandemic became a major issue of his premiership with Mr Johnson's government introducing emergency powers and approving the rollout of a nationwide vaccination programme.

However the scandal known as 'Partygate' broke in December 2021 when it emerged Mr Johnson and other government officials breached their own COVID-19 regulations.

Mr Johnson received a fixed penalty notice, becoming the first prime minister of the United Kingdom to be sanctioned for breaking the law while in office.

After surviving a vote of no confidence revelations over his hiring of Chris Pincher as Government Deputy Chief Whip led to a mass resignation of ministers from his government and Mr Johnson finally resigning.

During his short but controversial tenure, Mr Johnson visited Powys earlier this year.

Mr Johnson visited the new Hilltop Honey factory in Newtown in May which coincided with the Welsh Conservative Party conference being held in the town theatre on the same weekend.