Boris Johnson to steer Brexit as next UK prime minister
After a six-week leadership race, Johnson won by a landslide ballot, and promises to ‘ping off the guy ropes of self-doubt and negativity’
23 July 2019 - 13:55
London — Boris Johnson, the public face of the Brexit campaign, has won the contest to succeed Theresa May as British prime minister, taking over a country in crisis and a government on the brink of breaking apart.
After a six-week leadership race, which he led from the start, Johnson defeated his rival foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt by a landslide in a ballot of the Conservative Party’s roughly 160,000 members...
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