24 hours after attaining the leadership of his Conservative party by comfortably defeating his rival Jeremy Hunt, the former London mayor and frontman of the 2016 Brexit campaign replaced Theresa May from office.
Britain’s newly elected Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday promised to follow Brexit on October 31 without any doubt.
Delivering speech outside his new Downing Street office, Johnson, who inherited the incomplete EXIT campaign in the 2016’s Brexit referendum, Johnson said that as prime minister he would take the UK out of the European Union on October 31 “no ifs no buts.”
After being formally appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, Johnson manifested his objective, insisting that the vote to leave the European Union must be respected.
He said that there will be “difficulties ahead” but that the UK would overcome them.
The prime minister said, “The doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters, they are going to get it wrong again.”
“The people who bet against Britain are going to lose their shirts. We are going to fulfill the promises of parliament to the people. we are going to come out of the EU on October 31. No ifs, no buts.” He confidently announced.
“We will do a new deal. A better deal that will maximize the opportunities of Brexit,” Johnson said. “I have every confidence that in 99 days’ time we will have cracked it,” he cleared.
A new Conservative Party’s leader also announced the domestic policy in his address.
“I will take personal responsibility for the change I want to see,” he said.
“Never mind the backstop, the buck stops here,” he added.
“If there is one thing that has really sapped the confidence of business, it is not the decisions we have taken, it is our refusal to take decisions.”
“Brexit was a fundamental decision by the British people that they wanted their laws made by people that they elected and that they can remove from office,” Johnson said.
“We must now respect that decision,” he cleared.
He told EU citizens living in the UK that under his government, they would have “absolute certainty of the right to live and remain” in the country after Brexit.
