The Daily Telegraph - 24.07.2019

By Gordon Rayner Political Editor

BORIS JOHNSON will today begin as-

sembling a majority Brexiteer Cabinet

as he clears out Remainers to end “self-

doubt” and get Britain ready for leav-

ing the EU on Oct 31.

Priti Patel, one of the most ardent

Eurosceptics in the Conservative Party,

will be given a seat at Mr Johnson’s top

table as he begins addressing the three-

to-one majority of Remain voters in the

Cabinet that he will inherit from The-

resa May.

He will also make it the most ethni-

cally diverse Cabinet in history, with

Alok Sharma, the employment minis-

ter, among those to be given their own

department, and the number of female

secretaries of state also increasing.

Mr Johnson, who won the Tory lead-

ership yesterday with 66 per cent of

party members’ votes, will call a halt to

domestic legislation for his first 100

days in office as he tells his ministers to

focus on Brexit.

As he won the role he has long be-

lieved to be his destiny, he said he was

not “daunted” by the scale of the task

ahead of him, and was “impatient” to

get on with the job.

He said he would work “flat out” to

deliver Brexit, adding: “I think that we

know we can do it and that the people

of this country are trusting in us to do

it, and we know that we will do it.”

His supporters said his victory, with

92,153 votes to Jeremy Hunt’s 46,656,

gave him a “clear mandate” to deliver

*The leader to:

Deliver Brexit

Unite the country

Defeat Corbyn

Energise Britain

‘We’ve landed in the UK.

Brace yourselves, we’re

expecting turbulence’

I’m the

dude*

Prime Minister

Johnson to appoint

Brexiteer Cabinet as

he spends his first

100 days in No 10

focusing solely on

leaving the EU

on October 31

Boris Johnson gives photographers a salute and a thumbs up outside Conservative Party headquarters after being announced as Theresa May’s successor as leader

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Brexit with or without a deal by

Hallowe’en.

Mr Johnson said his task was to de-

liver Brexit, unite the country, defeat

Jeremy Corbyn and energise Britain,

the initials of which spell “dude”.

In a typically bombastic acceptance

speech, he said: “The mantra of the

campaign that has just gone by ... is de-

liver Brexit, unite the country and de-

feat Jeremy Corbyn – and that is what

we are going to do.

“I know that some wag has already

pointed out that deliver, unite and de-

feat was not the perfect acronym for an

election campaign, since unfortunately

it spells dud – but they forgot the final

‘e’ my friends, ‘e’ for energise. And I say

to all the doubters: ‘Dude! We are going

to energise the country. We are going

to get Brexit done on October 31.’”

Donald Trump was among the first

to congratulate Mr Johnson, saying he

would make a “great” prime minister

because “he’s tough and he’s smart”,

before telling a student rally in Wash-

ington DC that Mr Johnson was “the

British Trump”.

The US president also claimed Nigel

Farage, the leader of the Brexit Party,

was “going to work well with Boris”

and “do some tremendous things”.

Mr Johnson is lining up a visit to the

US within the next month, the first of

three meetings with Mr Trump before

the end of September.

Before that, he is expected to begin a

tour of the four nations of the UK this

weekend with a visit to the north of

England to set out his vision for the

country, and is likely to invite EU chiefs

to the UK within days to begin talks

about a new Brexit deal. Aides said he

would take no holidays until Brexit was

delivered.

After being appointed prime minis-

ter by the Queen this afternoon, Mr

Johnson will begin dismantling the

Remain-voting majority in the Cabinet,

22 of whom voted to stay in the EU,

compared with seven who voted Leave.

Mr Johnson has said that everyone in

his Cabinet must sign up to the possi-

bility of a no-deal Brexit, and wants

more than half of his ministers to be

Brexiteers. Some, including Sajid Javid

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