May Backs Johnson After He Attacks Her ‘Crazy’ Brexit Trade Plan
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Theresa May still has confidence in Boris Johnson, her spokesman said, after the U.K. foreign secretary described his boss’s post-Brexit trade policy with the European Union as “crazy.”
The prime minister’s proposal for a customs partnership with the EU -- a complicated plan that would keep the U.K. closer to the bloc than Brexit backers would like -- was rejected by most of her Cabinet last week and euroskeptics declared it dead. May is optimistic her ministers will agree on a way forward, her spokesman, James Slack, told reporters in London.