Johnson wants to be next British PMBy The Manila Timeshome/News/World/Johnson wants to be next British PMBritain’s Boris Johnson, the former foreign minister, ex-mayor of London and leading Brexit campaigner, confirmed he would run for the premiership when Theresa May quits, British media reported. “Of course I’m going to go for it,” he told a business event in Manchester, northwest England, confirming what most commentators and colleagues have long assumed. Johnson quit as foreign minister last year over the government’s Brexit strategy and has been an outspoken critic of the divorce deal May struck with Brussels last November. She announced this week she would bring it back for a fourth and likely final time in the week beginning on June 3. May hopes to secure parliament’s approval for the deal by July, at which point she is expected to step down.

Source: Manila Times May 17, 2019 17:31 UTC