Breaking: Brexit hardliner Boris Johnson has won the race to lead Britain’s governing Conservative Party and will become the country’s next prime minister.
Brexit hard-liner Boris Johnson has won the race to lead Britain’s governing Conservative Party and will become the country’s next prime minister.He will be installed as prime minister in a formal handover from Theresa May on Wednesday.
The victory is a triumph for the 55-year-old Johnson, an ambitious but erratic politician whose career has veered between periods in high office and spells on the sidelines.Johnson has vowed that Britain will quit the European Union, “come what may,” on the scheduled Brexit departure date of Oct. 31 even if it means leaving without a divorce deal.
But he faces a rocky ride from a Parliament determined to prevent him from taking the U.K. out of the bloc without a withdrawal agreement.
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