Conrad Black: How Boris Johnson – and Britain – came to this place

Boris Johnson is a British politician, journalist, and historian who has been a member of Uxbridge and South Ruislip parliament since 2015, having been Henley’s parliamentarian between 2001 and 2008. He was mayor of London from 2008 to 2016, and from 2016 to 2018. He served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Likewise, Member of the Conservative Party, Johnson identifies himself as a conservative of a single nation and has been associated economically and socially with liberal politics. Johnson is a candidate for leader of the Conservative Party, and therefore Prime Minister, in the leadership contest of 2019.

Now, it has been said that the long nightmare of Britain’s relations with the European Union, the biggest failure of the British government since the American Revolution, is finally reaching its climax. And it is established that the extravagant former mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is almost certain to be the next leader of the British Conservative Party and Prime Minister. In this way, it is necessary to clarify that the so-called crisis began when former Prime Minister David Cameron promised a “total change to the treaty” and returned from Brussels with less than what Neville Chamberlain brought from Munich. That being the case, he had promised a referendum that offered his treaty almost imperceptibly altered or a complete rupture, it is called Brexit, sure that his compatriots could not vote to leave Europe. If he had brought the final proposal of May, the voters would have approved it.

Possible very simple victory

In this way, it is considered that the European Union is one of those rare problems in modern British history that annuls loyalty to parties, such as the repeal of the Corn Laws in the 1840s: Robert Peel and Benjamin Disraeli divided the Conservative Party for almost 30 years, and imperial free trade, which was divided. That being the case, it has been said that May always had more than a hundred of his conservative MPs against his attempts at accommodation, and was in constant danger of falling into an election, which angry polls indicated could have been won by the leader of the Labor Party, Jeremy Corbyn.

It should be noted that the leaders of the conservative groups and the Conservative Party caucus finally interrupted the late prime minister and she announced her resignation with dignity. Johnson, who has always been a Leaver, led the polls among members of parliament from the start and everything indicates that he will also easily win in the second stage of the British Conservative leadership process, a postal ballot among the 160,000 members of the conservative associations of electors, which is in progress now. Then, the parliament will take its summer recess and return on September 3. For his part, Johnson, establishing himself as an electrifying public figure and with a logical and determined approach to Brexit, can be relied upon to open an important public approval on the unviable Corbyn.

Source: Conrad Black | National Post