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    Hard-Line Brexiteer Boris Johnson To Become Britain's New Prime Minister

    Johnson will inherit a slate of problems from Theresa May, including a small majority in Parliament, government resignations and escalations with Iran. And then there's Brexit.
    by Sasha Ingber Jul 23, 2019 3 minutes
    Boris Johnson is now the U.K.'s incoming prime minister, after winning a party election. He's seen here arriving at the Conservative party's headquarters in central London on Tuesday.

    Updated at 10 a.m. ET

    Britain's Conservative Party has chosen Boris Johnson to become the country's next prime minister, replacing the pragmatic and sometimes colorless Theresa May with a bombastic populist who favors a no-deal Brexit.

    Johnson walked to the podium inside London's Queen Elizabeth II Centre, thanking his opponent, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, and the outgoing May.

    "Today at this pivotal moment in our history," Johnson said, "we again have to reconcile two sets of instincts, two noble sets of instincts, between the deep desire for friendship and free trade and mutual support and

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