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Brexit: Boris Johnson insists he will stay on as PM even though poll indicates he might lose seat

The Prime Minister said that “substantial sums of money” are coming back to the UK due to Brexit.

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2021-01-03 14:25
in Politics
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Boris Johnson has insisted he will continue as Prime Minister in the wake of securing the end of the Brexit transition period.

His comments come as the PM is on course to lose his seat and neither of the two main political parties is likely to win an outright majority at the next general election, according to a new poll.

However, Mr Johnson said Britain had negotiated a good deal with the EU and there were lots of reasons to be positive about an “otherwise grim new year” amid the coronavirus crisis.

Pressed on whether he would remain in Downing Street after finally taking the UK out of the EU, the Prime Minister told BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show: “Yes.”

Mr Johnson continued: “I think you should break out of your characteristic gloom, if I may say so Andrew.

Tough period

“Things are very tough, we’re going through a very tough period as a country, but I really think people should focus on the amazing fact this country has created a room-temperature vaccine which can be used around the world.

Boris Johnson on The Andrew Marr Show
Boris Johnson on The Andrew Marr Show (Jeff Overs/BBC)

“And we now have freedoms that we haven’t had for 50 years and there are lots of reasons to be very positive about this otherwise grim new year.”

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The remarks follow some media speculation that Mr Johnson was considering standing down before the next general election which is slated for 2024.

The Prime Minister said that “substantial sums of money” are coming back to the UK due to Brexit.

He said: “We’ve got control over our borders, a points-based immigration system has already been established.

“And then when it comes to areas in parts of the country that feel that they’ve been left behind, one of the things that you can do for instance, to say nothing more (of) the regulatory changes you can make, one of the things you can do is have free ports.”

The comments came as Labour former prime minister Tony Blair said that decisions for Britain have always rested with the British people, as he compared Brexit to “shock therapy”.

Less political influence

He said: “There is nothing that Brexit’s going to do for Britain on its own. It’s going to leave us economically weaker and with less political influence.

“And so the only way I make sense of Brexit is to treat it as shock therapy, that we then realise we’ve got to take certain big decisions as a country, we’ve got to set out a new agenda for the future, but that’s going to be difficult to do.

“The truth of the matter is these so-called freedoms from European regulation that Brexit’s supposed to give us, they don’t really give us anything much at all.

“Because the truth is that decisions for Britain are and always have been resting with the British people and with the British government that they elect.

“But what it does mean, if we just carry on having the same old political debate post-Brexit as we had pre-Brexit, we’re in a lot of trouble as a country.”

Labour former prime minister Tony Blair (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

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