Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson assured British Conservatives Tuesday that he supports "every syllable" of Prime Minister Theresa May's plans for Brexit. Johnson told delegates to the Conservative annual conference that "the whole country owes (May) a debt for her steadfastness in taking Britain forward, as she will, to a great Brexit deal." With EU divorce negotiations proceeding at a snail's pace, Johnson has positioned himself as a champion of a clean-break "hard Brexit." Johnson told conference delegates that it was time to stop being negative about Brexit and "treating the referendum result as though it were a plague of boils." U.K. finance minister Philip Hammond issued a warning to Johnson, telling broadcaster ITV: "Nobody is unsackable."

Source: ABC News October 03, 2017 07:51 UTC