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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-OK) and 44 other Republican senators on Saturday sent a letter to United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson, pledging to back the country as it prepares to leave the European Union (EU) in the coming months.

The Conservatives have suffered their first electoral defeat under Boris Johnson. Good!

Boris Johnson’s government has unveiled plans for at least ten “free ports” around the country to boost jobs, trade, and innovation in Britain’s “left behind” coastal communities after Brexit.

A poll has revealed that if Prime Minister Boris Johnson delays Brexit and there is a snap General Election, the Brexit Party would gain more votes than the Conservative Party.

Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is announcing its first 150 Parliamentary candidates in the coming days, and named the first fifty this morning in a list seen by Breitbart London which includes a former Labour party politician, a Sikh temple leader, and a Tory constituency chairwoman. 

DUP leader Arlene Foster has accused the European Union of using the stalemate over renegotiating the UK’s withdrawal treaty to “break up the United Kingdom”. The leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, a conservative, Northern Irish party which holds up

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage is to announce 150 candidates to fight in a General Election, as he warned Prime Minister Johnson may try to pass a version of Theresa May’s unpopular withdrawal treaty in the House of Commons.

The United States is looking to “deepen and expand” its trade relationship with the United Kingdom, according to the White House, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson prioritises the country’s future outside of the EU over surrendering the country to the “vassalage” of Brussels.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told EU leaders he will not meet to discuss Brexit with them until they are ready to renegotiate the exit treaty.

Boris Johnson’s Secretary of State for International Trade has confirmed that a British-American trade pact is one of her top Brexit priorities, after U.S. President Donald Trump expressed his desire to move things forward after years of stasis under Theresa May.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set up a “War Cabinet” focused on delivering Brexit by October 31st, with the government working on the “assumption” that the UK will leave the EU in a clean break, without a deal.

Labour’s Kate Hoey MP has lamented that her party has become “a party of the metropolitan bubble” destined for “disaster” due to its abandonment of working-class Brexit supporters.

Sajid Javid, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, says there “should be no doubt” that Britain is leaving the European Union on October 31st, and that Her Majesty’s Treasury is now “turbocharging” its preparations for a No Deal Brexit in case the bloc refuses to improve on the deal it offered Theresa May.

Watching Boris Johnson’s administration in actions is like witnessing the Restoration of Charles II after years in which Britain had been in thrall to hatchet-faced, Christmas-and-Maypole-banning Puritans.

“Sooner not later” is the mantra for Australia seeking to trade with the UK in a post-Brexit world, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison saying he wants a deal done within weeks of Britain exiting EU trade restrictions.

London (AFP) – A no-deal Brexit could lead to a united Ireland as more people in Northern Ireland would “come to question the Union” with Great Britain, Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar has said.

U.S. President Donald Trump has revealed that his administration is already working on a trade deal with British prime minister Boris Johnson, which he predicts will boost British-American trade by three, four, perhaps even five times.

Brexit Party MEP Alexandra Philips has warned that “we can’t believe Boris” on his pledges to deliver Brexit.

Outgoing president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has told Boris Johnson that the EU will not be renegotiating the withdrawal treaty, meaning the prime minister will have to make good on delivering a no-deal Brexit on October 31st.

Leading Brexiteer Steve Baker MP has declined to reprise his old junior minister’s job in Boris Johnson’s government, signalling that Tory Leavers will not follow the new prime minister blindly.

U.S. ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson has said that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Donald Trump are going to have a “sensational” relationship, adding that the UK was at the “front of the line” for bilateral free trade talks.

Boris Johnson’s government has confirmed that the United Kingdom will not pay the £39 billion ‘divorce bill’ to Brussels if the country leaves the European Union without a deal.

New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was the mission and purpose of his government to make the United Kingdom the “greatest place” to raise a family in his first address to Parliament as leader, but courted the displeasure of small-c conservatives by again talking up an illegal migrant amnesty. 

Boris Johnson has passed his first test as prime minister with flying colours. He has appointed the most robustly conservative (and pro-Brexit) cabinet since the Thatcher era.

Nigel Farage has said that the Brexit Party and the Conservatives could “smash” Labour in a snap election, but only if Boris Johnson agreed to an election pact.

Boris Johnson has cleared out the Cabinet of hardline remainers and his critics, rewarding allies and appointing a number of Brexiteers to his government.

Boris Johnson stood at the podium before Downing Street and told a crowd of waiting journalists that he would take the United Kingdom out of the European Union “no ifs, no buts” in 99 days time.

Some encouraging news: Boris Johnson has appointed Dominic Cummings as one of his senior advisors.

Today Boris Johnson becomes Britain’s prime minister. By weird coincidence, he happens to be the second prime minister with whom I was friends at university.

German populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP Petr Bystron has predicted that new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be good for the UK, but bad for the German establishment.

In Ursula Von der Leyen’s appointment, we’ve seen the future of the EU; anti-democratic and militaristic.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has expressed doubt whether Mr Johnson will deliver, warning that Johnson’s positions on key issues such as immigration are unclear and that he “flips and flops”.

Donald Trump met with Brexit leader Nigel Farage Tuesday as Britain learnt that Boris Johnson would be the next Prime Minister, a revelation that prompted the President to say Mr Johnson and Mr Farage should work together to take Britain out of the European Union. 

Nigel Farage has said that he is ready for a “punch up” with the prime minister if Boris Johnson treats the Brexit Party as an “enemy”, warning he will need a political alliance in the event of a General Election.

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.