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Boris Johnson seeks to
become British PM after Theresa May’s resignation
Britain’s Boris Johnson confirmed Thursday he
will seek to become prime minister when Theresa May quits as she promised
to set out a departure timetable early next month.
“Of course I’m going to go for it,” the
former foreign minister, ex-mayor of London and leading Brexit campaigner said
at a business event in Manchester.
The decision comes as little surprise as
Johnson, one of Britain’s most identifiable politicians known simply as
“Boris”, has long been known to covet the top job. But it effectively fires the
starting gun on a race that already has more than a dozen runners and
riders even though there is no official vacancy.
May has promised to step down once the first
stage of Britain’s exit from the European Union is secured, but this has been
put in doubt by repeated Brexit delays. At a meeting of senior members of
her Conservative party on Thursday, May resisted growing demands to set out a
detailed plan for her departure right now.
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