Boris Johnson Is New UK PM

Boris Johnson, the animated gaffe-prone Brexiteer who has promised to lead Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal by Halloween, will replace Theresa May as prime minister after winning the leadership of the Conservative Party Tuesday.

His victory pushes the United Kingdom towards a Brexit showdown with the EU and a constitutional crisis at home, as British lawmakers have vowed to bring down any government that tries to leave the European bloc without a divorce deal.

Johnson, the face of the 2016 Brexit referendum, won the votes of 92,153 members of the Conservative party, to 46,656 for his rival, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

Veteran British politician, George Galloway reacted by saying: “You’d have to have been out in the noonday sun, would certainly have to be English and being mad would help, if you thought Boris Johnson was the answer to Britain’s now rather critical problems.”