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Johnson Shrugs Off Brexiters' Pleas for Electoral Pact

Jamie Dettmer

   Hard-line Brexiters are echoing U.S. President Donald Trump and urging
   Britain's new Conservative prime minister, Boris Johnson, to forge an
   electoral pact with Nigel Farage, the flamboyant Euroskeptic and friend
   of the American leader.

   They say if Johnson doesn't, Brexit may be lost, with pro-European
   Union opposition parties likely to emerge stronger from a snap election
   that many lawmakers think Johnson will have no choice but to trigger in
   October, and one he appears to be actively planning to hold.

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