Boris Johnson: What New UK PM Said After Assuming Office

Boris Johnson promised on Thursday that Brexit would make Britain the greatest place on earth.

Johnson promised to strike a new Brexit divorce deal with the EU and to energise the world’s fifth largest economy after what he casts as the gloom of Theresa May’s premiership.

“Our mission is to deliver Brexit on Oct. 31 for the purpose of uniting and re-energising our great United Kingdom and making this country the greatest place on earth,” Reuters quoted him as saying.

He said that he was not being hyperbolic as the United Kingdom could be most prosperous economy in Europe by 2050, a feat that would mean drawing far ahead of France and then overtaking Germany.

Johnson promised British “children and grandchildren will be living longer, happier, healthier, wealthier lives.”

Johnson added that one of the most hotly contested elements of the Brexit divorce agreement would have to be struck out if there was to be an orderly exit.

The new PM further stated the Irish backstop, an insurance policy designed to prevent the return of a hard border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, must be abolished.

“It must be clearly understood that the way to the deal goes by way of the abolition of the backstop,” Johnson said.