UK PM Johnson to unveil new Brexit plan

Team Udayavani, Oct 2, 2019, 10:53 AM IST

Manchester: Prime Minister Boris Johnson will unveil his plan for a new Brexit deal at his Conservative party conference on Wednesday, warning the EU it is that or Britain leaves with no agreement this month.

Downing Street said Johnson would give details of a “fair and reasonable compromise” in his closing address to the gathering in Manchester, and would table the plans in Brussels the same day.

It stressed this would be a “final offer”, and that if the European Union “does not engage” then Johnson would keep to his threat to leave on October 31 with no deal.

The prime minister would “in no circumstances” ask to delay Brexit at a Brussels summit on October 17 and 18, it said in a statement.

“Let’s get Brexit done -we can, we must and we will,” Johnson will tell delegates.

Johnson has received a rapturous welcome at the first party conference since Conservative members elected him as leader in July with one purpose, to get Britain out of the EU.

Under the slogan “Get Brexit Done”, he and his ministers have repeated over and over that the country will leave the bloc on October 31.

But like his predecessor Theresa May, he has struggled against a hostile parliament and the complexities of untangling four decades of integration with the European Union.

He has pledged to renegotiate the exit terms May agreed with Brussels, which MPs rejected three times.