Johnson ‘Confident’ of Deal as Pound Falls: Brexit Update
Boris Johnson on HMS Victorious at HM Naval Base Clyde, Jul 29.
Photographer: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
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Boris Johnson is in Scotland for crunch meetings with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Scottish Conservatives leader Ruth Davidson, who warned the prime minister she will never support his fall-back plan to take the U.K. out of the European Union without an agreement. The pound fell to a two-year low as Johnson’s government ramps up preparations to leave the bloc, come what may, on Oct. 31.