Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) commented on former London Mayor Boris Johnson winning the internal vote to become the new leader of the Conservative Party, which would set him up to become the Prime Minister of
Politicians and commentators have reacted to Boris Johnson winning the Conservative leadership election. While some are optimistic that Mr Johnson will usher in a positive, “can-do” era in British history, others ask whether he has what it takes to deliver Brexit.
With Boris Johnson succeeding Theresa May as Tory leader, many believe the United Kingdom now has its “British Trump” — but the American and the Englishman are not as similar as they might appear. Britain’s governing Conservative Party, often still
U.S. President Donald Trump has hailed the selection of Boris Johnson to the leadership of the United Kingdom, writing that the Conservative will be great.
Leave campaigner Boris Johnson is set to enter No. 10 on Wednesday, but Brexiteers may be concerned about the new premier’s position on immigration, control of which is a sticking point for Eurosceptics. The Conservative Party leader’s comments on amnesty
Former Mayor of London Boris Johnson has won the internal vote to become the new leader of the governing Conservative Party, meaning he is due to become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Wednesday afternoon.
Britain’s Liberal Democrat party elected a new leader Monday, with the successful candidate using her first messages to party members to promise that she would be doing everything in her power to prevent the United Kingdom from leaving the European Union.
Brexit Party MEP for the West Midlands Martin Daubney has said that party leader Nigel Farage could “take down” Boris Johnson.
European Union officials are predicting an 80 per cent chance that the UK will leave the bloc in a clean break under a Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Boris Johnson, Theresa May’s expected successor as Prime Minister, has said Britain must approach Brexit with the same “can-do” spirit as 1960s America.
A government minister who was one of the loudest voices supporting the Trump-critic British ambassador who stepped down from this role earlier this month has also quit, announcing his departure just days before political rival Boris Johnson is expected to become British Prime Minister.
Britain’s payments to the European Union budget swelled by billions of pounds in an “eye-popping” 20 per cent increase to its bloc obligations in the year to March 31st, despite the country having voted to leave the EU all the way back in 2016.
Only a couple of days now before Britain bids a relieved farewell to the worst prime minister in history. But let’s give credit where credit is due: it wasn’t just Theresa May who was so sublimely useless; it was her entire administration.
Tory Remainers have sketched out an extraordinary plot to embroil the Queen in their efforts to thwart Brexit, by having her travel to the next EU summit and plead for it to be delayed.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned that “bully boys” like the next European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, will construct a more federalised European Union.
So now we know what Boris Johnson’s most pressing task when he becomes the United Kingdom’s prime minister next Tuesday: destroy the Electoral Commission.
President Donald Trump expressed optimism Friday that, as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson might have better luck securing the country’s exit from the European Union.
The courts have quashed a huge fine against working-class Brexit campaigner Darren Grimes, which many Remain campaigners had used to discredit the legitimacy of the Leave vote in 2016.
Prospective next prime minister Boris Johnson will create a Ministry of No Deal to prepare the UK for a clean break from the European Union.
The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said that Prime Minister Theresa May never told him that the United Kingdom would consider leaving the EU without a deal.
BRUSSELS (AP) – Diplomatic language has gone out of the window in the standoff over Britain’s departure from the European Union, with a UK government delegate calling one top EU official a “stupid boy.”
Unelected peers in the House of Lords have passed an amendment which could theoretically block Boris Johnson from suspending parliament so that the UK can leave the EU on October 31st without a deal.
Boris Johnson, the favourite to be the next British Prime Minister when the role is handed over next week has appointed a noted Brexiteer as his senior Brexit policy advisor, in a move which may signpost his intended course on the European Union.
A Labour MP has publicly backed a no-deal Brexit over stopping Brexit, defying the official Labour Party position.
Tory MP Dominic Grieve has said that the Conservative Party’s grassroots had undergone a “Talibanisation” over Brexit, and claimed that Boris Johnson had “radicalised” over the Irish border issue.
Forty-three Brexiteer Tory MPs are set to vote against any amended EU-approved exit treaty put to the House of Commons, and are urging Boris Johnson to take the UK out of the EU on October 31st without a deal.
Britain’s chief trade negotiator has revealed that Britain has had “very little influence” on world trade as an EU member-state, with the bloc subjecting it to a Common Commercial Policy and external tariff regime.
Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib has said that the European Parliament “should be abolished” because it “provides the trappings of democracy but serves no such purpose”.
With Brexiteer Boris Johnson likely to become the next prime minister, the last week has seen various groups and political figures announce measures to stop a no-deal exit.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage believes that the Labour Party has “signed its own death warrant” by finally declaring its support for another Brexit referendum in which it would campaign for Remain, in defiance of the predominantly Leave-voting working class which was once the party’s base.
