Boris Johnson Set to Become the Next Prime Minister of United Kingdom

Boris Johnson, the cheerful Brexiteer, who has once promised the people of Britain to lead the country out of the European Union with or without a deal by the end of Halloween this year, will now replace Theresa May as the prime minister, after he won the leadership of the Conservative Party on Tuesday.

Now this victory will ensure and lead the United Kingdom towards a Brexit showdown with the EU and may also lead to a constitutional crisis at home, as the British lawmakers have promised to bring down any government at the centre that will try to leave the bloc without a divorce deal.

Boris Johnson, who became the face of the 2016 Brexit referendum, won the votes of 92,153 members of the Conservative party to his rival, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt who won 46,656 votes.

Theresa May will leave the Prime Minister’s office today after meeting Queen Elizabeth at the Buckingham Palace, who will formally appoint Boris Johnson as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, before he enters the Downing Street.

Boris Johnson, Britain’s most popular flamboyant politicians and an avowed Brexit supporter thus will be in charge of the government for the first time since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in the shock 2016 referendum.

Johnson who is known for his ambition, flowery oratory, a mop of blonde hair and cursory command of the policy detail is taking charge of the country at one of the most crucial and tumultuous junctures in the history of Britain, post World War Two. 

The Brexit referendum in the year 2016 showed the United Kingdom which was divided much more than the European Union and initiated several soul searching measures about everything from regional secession and immigration to capitalism to the legacy of empire and modern Britishness.

Brexit has so far thrown out two Conservative prime ministers and continues to dominate the scene.

Boris Johnson who has pledged to negotiate a new Brexit divorce deal with the European Union and is hopeful that he will secure it before 31st Oct. But if the bloc refuses, as it claims to be, he has to leave his promise and it will again a ‘do or die’ situation for him by the Halloween this year.

Many economists and investors are of the view that this step would send shock waves throughout the world markets and brought the world’s fifth-largest economy onto the verge recession and other economic chaos.

The exit of Britain from the European Union or Brexit without a divorce deal with EU would also weaken the position of London as the pre-eminent international financial centre thereby jolting the northern European economy.

In order to govern the country, Johnson’s Conservatives will need the support of 10 other lawmakers from Northern Ireland’s Brexit-backing Democratic Unionist Party members.  

Thus the majority support for Johnson still remains in a thin line as some lawmakers have already threatened to bring down the government, a step that would probably deepen the political crisis of Britain and lead to an early election. Now it is for everyone to see, how Johnson sails Britain through this crisis.