For EU, Johnson exit won’t change much; damage already done
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For EU, Johnson exit won’t change much; damage already done

Associated Press  

BRUSSELS — From his days stoking anti-European Union sentiment with exaggerated newspaper stories, to his populist campaign leading Britain out of the bloc and reneging on the post-Brexit trade deal he signed, outgoing U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been the bane of Brussels for all so many years. “Even with a new prime minister, I believe there will likely be few changes in the British government’s position” on the main Brexit issues causing current divisions, said David McAllister, the leading EU legislator dealing with the United Kingdom. Guy Verhofstadt, who was the top EU parliamentarian during the whole Brexit divorce proceedings, said Johnson’s impact was such there is little to no chance another Conservative prime minister could steer a fundamentally different course. “The damage done by the outgoing prime minister, through the project that he instrumentalized to achieve power, lives on.” The United Kingdom was always a halfhearted EU member since joining the bloc in 1973. “The Conservative Party has a dominant Brexit core that you will have to convince to become prime minister.” Although the first years of Brexit have yielded anything but the bounty Johnson promised, any possible quest to return the U.K. to the EU is also as good as out of the question, with the main opposition Labour Party now centering to make the best of the Brexit situation instead.

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