LONDON: Ballots closed in the race to become Britain's next prime minister on Monday (Jul 22), with the favourite Boris Johnson facing more ...
LONDON: Ballots closed in the race to become Britain's next prime minister on Monday , with the favourite Boris Johnson facing more defections by ministers over his Brexit plan.
Both candidates have had a rocky end to a campaign whose closing stages are being waged against a backdrop of a high-stakes stand-off with Iran in the Gulf. But Johnson doubled down on his pledge to take Britain safely out of the European Union with the help of a new unspecified technological fix for avoiding a hard border with EU member Ireland.
Several ministers accused him on Sunday of devoting too much time to his leadership campaign and not enough on his diplomatic duties.An online poll of 1,199 Conservative Party members conducted on Friday and Saturday by the Conservative Home website put Johnson on 73 per cent.Bookmakers give Hunt around a one in 20 chance of winning.
The pound is trading near a two-year low against the dollar and the euro, and parliamentarians are looking for ways to stop Johnson from taking Britain out of the EU without a strategy for unwinding 46 years of intricate ties.
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