Such an option would restrict UK room for manoeuvre over migration, common regulatory standards or the right to strike trade deals. On Saturday, Johnson published a 4,000-word article about Brexit in the Daily Telegraph that was widely interpreted as the first step in a pitch for the party leadership. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson meets Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and other international leaders at the UN general assembly in New York. However, on Tuesday he argued that he did not see his article in the context of a challenge to May’s authority. “One after the other people wrote articles saying ‘where oh where, why cannot we hear from Johnson?’ I then obliged them.

Source: The Guardian September 19, 2017 21:09 UTC