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Brexit: Johnson Savages May’s ’Democratic Disaster’ Proposals for Future Relations with EU

Brexit: Johnson Savages May’s ’Democratic Disaster’ Proposals for Future Relations with EU
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UK’s Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson savagely attacked Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans as a “democratic disaster” that will leave the UK in “miserable permanent limbo” after it leaves the European Union.

In an excoriating take down of May’s approach set out by the cabinet at Chequers, Johnson told the House of Commons it is not too late for Britain to change its course.

Johnson, who quit his government job over the Chequers deal, urged May to stick to the vision for Brexit she set out in her Lancaster House speech 18 months earlier, but argued she had since undertaken a “stealthy retreat”.

He delivered his attack during his resignation speech, surrounded by supportive Brexiteer Tory MPs, at the opposite end of the government benches from the ministerial dispatch box he has spoken from over the past two years.

With May’s authority having suffered several blows in recent days, he said: “Let us again aim explicitly for that glorious vision of Lancaster House – a strong, independent, self-governing Britain that is genuinely open to the world.

“Not the miserable permanent limbo of Chequers, not the democratic disaster of on-going harmonization with no way out and no say for the UK.”

“We need to take one decision now before all others and that is to believe in this country and what it can do.”

In the wake of the speech, Johnson’s odds of becoming the next prime minister were pitched at 5/1 by bookmaker William Hill, behind only Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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