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Johnson Confident of EU Brexit Deal, Works ‘Flat Out’ on Leaving

Boris Johnson
Boris JohnsonPhotographer: Bryn Colton/Bloomberg

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is “working flat out” to meet the Oct. 31 date to leave the European Union, and said he can finalize a withdrawal agreement during a summit meeting of leaders in Brussels two weeks before the deadline.

“I believe passionately that we can do it, and I believe that such an agreement is in the interests not just of the U.K. but also of our European friends,” Johnson wrote in a column for Monday’s Daily Telegraph newspaper.