Wednesday 18 July 2018

Boris Johnson's scathing resignation speech could mean the start of a leadership challenge



The MP's attack on May's Brexit plan may prove a watershed  moment


18 JULY 2018 • 6:08PM

LEO MCKINSTRY

Boris Johnson delivered his excoriating resignation speech this afternoon from the same perch in the Commons chamber where Sir Geoffrey Howe made his renowned philippic against Margaret Thatcher in 1990. That devastating, often highly personal, attack by Mr Howe triggered the chain of events that ultimately led to Mrs Thatcher’s downfall.
A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows Britain's former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson as he speaks in the House of Commons in London on July 18, 2018. Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson urged Prime Minister Theresa May to change her negotiating strategy with Brussels, telling parliament in a rousing speech that it was "not too late to save Brexit". 
Are there parallels between Boris Johnson and Geoffrey Howe?  CREDIT:  HO/AFP
In the febrile current atmosphere at Westminster, it is possible that Boris’s barnstorming statement will have the same fatal impact on Theresa May’s embattled premiership.

There are huge differences between 1990 and today. For a start, there is no figure like Michael Heseltine waiting to...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/07/18/boris-johnsons-scathing-resignation-speech-could-signal-start/

Boris Johnson's Resignation Speech (video):  
http://leavevote.blogspot.com/2018/07/boris-johnson-resignation-speech-in.html



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