U.K.’s Johnson to launch election bid with promise to ‘get Brexit done’
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U.K.’s Johnson to launch election bid with promise to ‘get Brexit done’

The Hindu  

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will formally announce a Dec. 12 election on Wednesday, urging voters to back him and promising to “get Brexit done in the next few weeks”. The early election was agreed by parliament last week, ending two years of deep disagreement over Brexit that has sapped investors’ faith in the stability of the world’s fifth largest economy and damaged Britain’s international standing. “But as things stand we simply have no choice because it is only by getting Brexit done in the next few weeks that we can focus on all the priorities of the British people.” Polls show Johnson’s Conservatives are well ahead of Labour, but polling analysts caution that sentiment is unusually volatile. Attempting to capitalise on voters’ Brexit fatigue, more than three years after Britain voted 52% to 48% in favour of leaving the bloc, Johnson will say: “Its time to change the dismal pattern of the last three years and to get out of our rut.

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