https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49084605
Boris Johnson has been elected new Conservative leader in a ballot of party members and will become the next UK prime minister.
He beat Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival's 46,656.
The former London mayor takes over from Theresa May on Wednesday.
In his victory speech, Mr Johnson promised he would "deliver Brexit, unite the country and defeat Jeremy Corbyn".
Speaking at the Queen Elizabeth II centre in London, he said: "We are going to energise the country.
"We are going to get Brexit done on 31 October and take advantage of all the opportunities it will bring with a new spirit of can do.
"We are once again going to believe in ourselves, and like some slumbering giant we are going to rise and ping off the guy ropes of self doubt and negativity."
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 24 2019, @09:24PM
...true, but
...this isn't. While that may be true for the European Union as such (as established by the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992), all of its predecessor unions (the EEC, the ECSC and EURATOM) were trade treaties only: borne out of the realization that if you supranationalize the warfare industry (coal, steel, and nuclear energy), one nation cannot use its leverage to wage war on a co-dependant.
The goal of the original European Communities was not to bring political unity, but to remove (national) political influence from critical industries. So yes, it is a political construct, but it was explicitly about trade only. Specifically, to separate industry and state.