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Boris Johnson Is Back. Thank Trump and Farage.
Brexit means British politics is about promising the undeliverable to the implacable.
Boris Johnson, with an angle grinder.
Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg
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A dozen candidates are vying to replace Theresa May as leader of Britain’s Conservative Party. The only question is whether Boris Johnson, who says he would take the country out of the European Union without a deal, will emerge victorious, making him prime minister.
Tory MPs will whittle the field down to two candidates in the days after May steps down, before putting the pair to a vote by the party’s estimated 124,000 members in July.