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Britain’s Conservative Party has chosen Boris Johnson to become the country’s next prime minister, replacing the pragmatic and sometimes colorless Theresa May with a bombastic populist who favors a no-deal Brexit.
Johnson walked to the podium inside London’s Queen Elizabeth II Centre, thanking his opponent, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, and the outgoing May.
“Today at this pivotal moment in our history,” Johnson said, “we again have to reconcile two sets of instincts, two noble sets of instincts, between the deep desire for friendship and free trade and mutual support and security and defense between Britain and our European partners, and the simultaneous desire, equally deep and heartfelt, for democratic self-government in this country.”
British Conservative Party politician Cheryl Gillan announced the party’s election result after the Tories’ chairman, Brandon Lewis, urged unity.
