Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to be Britain's prime minister, promised he ...
LONDON - Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to be Britain’s prime minister, promised he would take the United Kingdom out of the European Union by Oct. 31, saying that only by preparing to leave without an agreement could a no-deal Brexit be prevented.Johnson, a former foreign minister and London mayor, is the clear favorite to replace Theresa May. He won the backing of 114 of 313 Conservative lawmakers in a first round of voting on Thursday, almost three times as many as his nearest rival.
“All those who say that we should delay ... I think they risk doing terminal damage to trust in politics. We have to get on and do this. We’ve got to be out by Oct. 31,” Johnson told BBC radio on Friday. The bloc has said repeatedly it will not renegotiate that agreement, which was aimed at taking Britain out of the bloc on March 29, before the date was pushed back twice to October.
Foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said earlier on Friday that Johnson’s Brexit proposals had to be scrutinized. With Johnson so far ahead in the first round of voting, the media have speculated that some rivals might withdraw to allow a more focused challenge to the man who led the official Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum.Slideshow
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