The moving vans have already started arriving at Downing Street as Britain's Conservative Party prepares to evict Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
The debate over what mark he left on his party, his country and the world will linger long after he departs in September — if, indeed, he really is gone for good.
Johnson led Britain out of the European Union and won a landslide election victory before his government collapsed in a heap of ethics scandals. During his final appearance in Parliament as prime minister in July, he summed up his three years in office as: “Mission largely accomplished.”
Many political historians take a harsher view.
“Winston Churchill said that History will be kind to me for I intend to write it,'” said Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London. “I'm pretty sure Johnson does too, but I doubt he'll find it's as kind to him as it was to his hero.”
Johnson cultivated a buffoonish public image, but he has had a serious impact on his country. He bears much of the credit, or blame, for Britain's departure from the EU, a momentous decision whose consequences will play out for years.
“The one certain thing you can say is that his legacy is Brexit,” said Steven Fielding, professor of political history at the University of Nottingham. “You can't take that away from him — it's just a question of whether it's a good thing or a bad thing.”