Asked about the date in a BBC TV debate last week, Johnson said only that it was “eminently feasible”. He would countenance leaving the EU without a deal but is notably more wary than Johnson. A key moment of the BBC debate came when Hunt recalled meeting a sheep farmer who said he would be wiped out by post-no-deal tariffs. At the BBC debate Hunt called for a boost to public services, and he risked annoying May by arguing that cuts to social care budgets had gone too far. Like the other candidates, when asked about the climate emergency at the BBC TV debate, Johnson had no particularly bold promises to make.

Source: The Guardian June 20, 2019 17:31 UTC