LONDON ¨C Boris Johnson promised in his first speech as prime minister to lead Britain out of the European Union on Oct. 31 with ¡°no ifs or buts¡± and warned that if the European Union refused to negotiate then there would be a no-deal Brexit.
Johnson, who has been hailed by U.S. President Donald Trump as Britain¡¯s Trump, is sending the strongest message yet to the EU that he will be taking a distinctly tougher approach to negotiating a revision of the Brexit divorce deal.
He took over from Theresa May at one of the most perilous junctures in post-World War II British history ¡ª the United Kingdom is divided over Brexit and weakened by the three-year political crisis that has gripped it since a 2016 referendum vote to leave the bloc.
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