LONDON: Britain's main allies congratulated Boris Johnson on Tuesday (Jul 23) after he won a party leadership vote that will see him become ...
that will see him become Britain's next prime minister, but the EU warned of challenging times ahead over Brexit.Advertisement"Congratulations to Boris Johnson on becoming the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He will be great!" US President Donald Trump tweeted.Last week he predicted Johnson would fix what Trump called the"disaster" that outgoing Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May had triggered in trying to lead Britain out of the European Union.
"There are many different and difficult issues to tackle together. We have challenging times ahead of us." "We are ready also to rework the agreed declaration on a new partnership in line with EUCO guidelines," Barnier said, referring to the non-binding political plan for future EU-UK ties that May signed in November.Outgoing European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker also sent his congratulations to Johnson, according to a spokeswoman.
"Iran does not seek confrontation. But we have 1,500 miles of Persian Gulf coastline. These are our waters & we will protect them," he said."I congratulate Boris Johnson and I will call him when he is officially prime minister," French President Macron said.
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