As U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as Conservative leader on the eve of President Donald Trump’s state visit, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage are set to gain.
Two friends of President Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, are set to dominate British politics after an emotional U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May announced she will resign her party leadership on June 7, her premiership derailed by the ongoing Brexit process.
Johnson was May’s foreign secretary until he resigned over her handling of Brexit in 2018, and has criticized her policy ever since. He met Trump during his time in that role. He added: “Thank you for your stoical service to our country and the Conservative Party. It is now time to follow her urgings: to come together and deliver Brexit.”
He argues that May’s deal and delays to Brexit are a betrayal of the 2016 referendum result, in which Britons voted by 52 percent to 48 percent to leave the E.U. How Brexit is manifested was not on the ballot paper. Trump does not like the E.U. He has opened up a trade conflict with it, and has poor relations with its leaders including Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and France’s President Emmanuel Macron.
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