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UK's Johnson Says All Conservative Candidates Vowed to Back His Brexit Deal

Reuters

   British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says all Conservative Party
   candidates in the upcomingelection have pledged to back his Brexit
   deal.

   "All 635 Conservative candidates standing at this election -- every
   single one of them -- has pledged to me that if electedthey will vote
   in Parliament to pass my Brexit deal so we canend the uncertainty and
   finally leave the EU," Johnson told London'sTelegraph newspaper in an
   [1]interview publishedlate on Saturday.

   "I am offering a pact with the people: If you voteConservative you can
   be 100% sure a majority Conservativegovernment will unblock Parliament
   and get Brexit done," he said.

   The December 12 election was called to end three years ofdisagreement
   over Brexit that has sapped investors' faith in thestability of the
   world's fifth-largest economy and damagedBritain's standing since it
   voted in a 2016 referendum to leavethe European Union.

   Johnson, 55, hopes to win a majority to push through thelast-minute
   Brexit deal he struck with the EU last month afterthe bloc granted a
   third delay to the divorce that wasoriginally supposed to take place
   March 29. Voters in a 2016referendum narrowly voted in favor of leaving
   the EU.

   Johnson's Conservatives leadLabourby sizable margins, four polls
   published Saturday show.

   A YouGov poll showed support for the Conservatives at45%, the highest
   level since 2017, compared withLabourat 28%,unchanged. The pro-European
   Union Liberal Democrats were at 15%,and the Brexit Party was at 4%,
   unchanged.

   A separate poll forSavantaComResalso said support forthe Conservatives
   was the highest since 2017, at41%.Labour'ssupport was at33%.

   The Conservatives have a 16-point lead overLabour,according to an
   opinion poll published by Opinium Research, and apoll by the Mail on
   Sunday said Johnson's party had a15-point lead overLabour.

References

   1. http://bit.ly/2rSSQ8v

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