LONDON/PARIS – Boris Johnson, the favourite to succeed Theresa May as Britain’s prime minister, said yesterday he would withhold payment of the country’s European Union exit bill of £39 billion (US$50 billion) to try and get a better deal – a move that drew an immediate rebuke from France.
Johnson is one of 11 lawmakers vying to run the world’s fifth largest economy after May resigned as leader of the governing Conservatives on Friday, having failed to unite parliament or the country behind her Brexit plan.
Britain is mired in its deepest political crisis in decades over how, when and whether it should leave the European Union – a decision that will fall to May’s successor and affect both its future role on the world stage and prosperity for generations to come. (Reuters)
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