- बोरिस जॉनसन ब्रिटेन के अगले प्रधानमंत्री होंगे
- पिछले काफी समय से ब्रिटेन के संभावित प्रधानमंत्री की सूची में सबसे ऊपर था जॉनसन का नाम
- ब्रेग्ज़िट को लेकर चल रहे विवाद पर बोरिस जॉनसन ने दिया था बड़ा बयान
- कही था कि वह निवर्तमान प्रधानमंत्री थेरेसा मे की सहमति वाले ब्रेग्जिट समझौते से विवादास्पद हिस्से को हटाने की बात
- ब्रिटेन के पीएम की दौड़ से पहले दोनों उम्मीदवारों ने ब्रेक्जिट पर अपने रुख को किया था कड़ा
- जिससे भावी सरकार का ब्रसेल्स के साथ हो सकता है टकराव
- उन्होंने कहा था कि वह ब्रेग्जिट समझौते से विवादास्पद हिस्से को हटाएंगे जिस पर निवर्तमान प्रधानमंत्री थेरेसा मे की थी सहमति
- ब्रिटेन की प्रधानमंत्री टेरेसा मे का स्थान लेने की दौड़ में दो शख्सियतें थीं शामिल
- इसमें लंदन के पूर्व मेयर बोरिस जॉनसन और विदेश मंत्री जेरेमी हंट का नाम सबसे था ऊपर
- इन दोनों ही उम्मीदवारों ने प्रारूप समझौते में उस बैकस्टॉप प्रावधान को खारिज किये जाने की प्रतिबद्धता थी जताई
- जिसमें आयरिश सीमा को खुला रखने के लिए ब्रसेल्स द्वारा जोर दिया गया था
Boris Johnson, the ebullient Brexiteer who has promised to lead Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal by Halloween, will replace Theresa May as prime minister after winning the leadership of the Conservative Party on Tuesday.
His victory catapults the United Kingdom towards a Brexit showdown with the EU and towards a constitutional crisis at home, as British lawmakers have vowed to bring down any government that tries to leave the bloc without a divorce deal.
Johnson, the face of the 2016 Brexit referendum, won the votes of 92,153 members of the Conservative party, to 46,656 for his rival, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
May will leave office on Wednesday after going to Buckingham Palace to see Queen Elizabeth, who will formally appoint Johnson before he enters Downing Street.
Johnson, 55, said the mantra of his leadership campaign had been to “deliver Brexit, unite the country and defeat (opposition Labour leader) Jeremy Corbyn – and that is what we are going to do”.
“Do you look daunted? Do you feel daunted? I don’t think you look remotely daunted to me,” Johnson told party members at the Queen Elizabeth conference centre opposite the British parliament. “We are going to get Brexit done.”
The result is a spectacular victory for one of Britain’s most flamboyant politicians, and places an avowed Brexit supporter in charge of the government for the first time since the United Kingdom voted to leave the EU in the shock 2016 referendum.
But Johnson – known for his ambition, mop of blonde hair, flowery oratory and cursory command of policy detail – takes office at one of the most tumultuous junctures in post-World War Two British history.
Divided kingdom
The 2016 Brexit referendum showed a United Kingdom divided about much more than the European Union, and has fuelled soul-searching about everything from regional secession and immigration to capitalism, the legacy of empire, and modern Britishness.
Brexit, which has already toppled two Conservative prime ministers, will dominate.
Johnson has pledged to negotiate a new Brexit divorce deal with the EU to secure before October 31. But if the bloc refuses, as it insists it will, he has promised to leave anyway – “do or die” – on Halloween.
It is a step that many investors and economists say would send shock waves through world markets and tip the world’s fifth largest economy into recession or even chaos.
A Brexit without a divorce deal would also weaken London’s position as the pre-eminent international financial centre while jolting the northern European economy.
Johnson’s Conservatives have no majority in parliament and need the support of 10 lawmakers from Northern Ireland’s Brexit-backing Democratic Unionist Party to govern.
Even then, the majority is wafer-thin – and some lawmakers have threatened to bring down the government, a step that would probably deepen Britain’s political crisis and lead to an election.