VIDEO: Climate activists tried to block convoy carrying BorisJohnson who was on the way to Queen Elizabeth meeting in Buckingham Palace (Video: APTN)
LONDON: Boris Johnson took over as Britain's prime minister Wednesday , promising to pull his country out of the European Union on Oct 31 by any means necessary.
Before he even took office, several pro-European ministers quit in protest at his threat to leave the EU without a divorce agreement to ease the split.Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn challenged Johnson to call a snap general election, saying he has no mandate from the public to govern. May resigned after failing to get her plan for leaving the EU through parliament, forcing her to twice delay Britain's departure date.
In a short speech in Downing Street, before tendering her resignation to the queen at the palace, she wished Johnson"every good fortune".
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