Echipa de top a lui Johnson se întâlnește pentru a complota gambitul #Brexit

Johnson’s dramatic rise to Britain’s top job sets the world’s fifth largest economy up for a showdown with the EU and a potential constitutional crisis - or election - at home, as lawmakers have vowed to thwart a no-deal Brexit.

Britain’s new leader promised to do a new Brexit deal with the bloc within less than 99 days but warned that if EU leaders refused - what he termed a “remote possibility” - then Britain would leave without a deal, “no ifs or buts”.

“I am convinced that we can do a deal,” Johnson, 55, said on arrival at No. 10 Downing Street, the premier’s official residence, after meeting Queen Elizabeth who requested he form a government.

Johnson’s bet is that the threat of a no-deal Brexit will persuade the EU’s biggest powers - Germany and France - to agree to revise the divorce deal that former Prime Minister Theresa May agreed last November but failed to ratify.

The EU has so far repeatedly refused to countenance rewriting the Withdrawal Agreement part of the divorce deal but has said it could change the so called Political Declaration on future ties.

The bloc has congratulated Johnson on his victory but was firm that it would not offer Britain better departure terms.

Johnson, who has sported a sometimes shambolic persona in his rise to power, showed mettle in office, sweeping away his predecessor’s government in one of the biggest culls of senior government jobs in recent British history.

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'Night of the Blond Knives', said Soarele, Britain’s most-read newspaper, in reference to the colour of Johnson’s dishevelled mop of hair. A total of 17 ministers in May’s government either resigned or were sacked, creating a powerful new group of enemies in parliament.

Sajid Javid, 49, was named as his finance minister. He is a Eurosceptic who voted to remain in the 2016 referendum.

Others are avowed Brexiteers: Priti Patel was appointed interior minister, Dominic Raab was appointed foreign minister and Stephen Barclay remained as Brexit minister.

Johnson also appointed Dominic Cummings, the campaign director of the official Brexit Vote Leave campaign, as a senior adviser in Downing Street.