New UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson executed a “brutal”, as some described, cabinet reshuffle after taking the top job. 18 of 29 ministers were dumped out. Instead, some Brexit hardliners are brought into the cabinet. New cabinet include Sajid Javid as chancellor of the exchequer, Dominic Raab as foreign secretary and first secretary of state, Priti Patel as home secretary, Michael Gove as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Liz Truss as international trade secretary, etc.
Johnson also said, “the doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters — they are going to get it wrong again. We are going to fulfill the repeated promises of Parliament to the people and come out of the EU on Oct. 31, no ifs or buts, and we will do a new deal, a better deal.”
He added, “We can do a deal without checks at the Irish border. It is of course vital at the same time that we prepare for the remote possibility that Brussels refuses any further to negotiate and we are forced to come out with no deal.”
He also insisted the economy is ready for no-deal. “The ports will be ready, the banks will be ready, the factories will be ready, business will be ready,” he said. “The British people have had enough of waiting.
