Reuters, Wellington :
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Tuesday appeared to deny there was any infighting within the governing Conservative party during a visit to New Zealand, where he said the country was near the top of the queue for a trade deal post-Brexit.
Boris Johnson played down recent media reports in London of infighting in the Conservative party along the lines of the Leave-Remain rifts it suffered during the referendum.
Britain kicked off a first full round of negotiations with the European Union last week, a year after Britons voted narrowly to leave the European Union, but their government seemed at war with itself over the divorce terms.
Asked whether the infighting within the party could compromise Britain’s ability to clinch a timely, post-Brexit deal with the EU, Boris Johnson said:
“I don’t wish in any way to sound complacent but I have been travelling in Japan and the now beautiful New Zealand and any such activities completely passed me by …. no one has sent me news of any such infighting,” Boris Johnson told a news conference in Wellington.
“Our friends and partners around the world can be confident that we are going to get this thing done and done in style.”
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Tuesday appeared to deny there was any infighting within the governing Conservative party during a visit to New Zealand, where he said the country was near the top of the queue for a trade deal post-Brexit.
Boris Johnson played down recent media reports in London of infighting in the Conservative party along the lines of the Leave-Remain rifts it suffered during the referendum.
Britain kicked off a first full round of negotiations with the European Union last week, a year after Britons voted narrowly to leave the European Union, but their government seemed at war with itself over the divorce terms.
Asked whether the infighting within the party could compromise Britain’s ability to clinch a timely, post-Brexit deal with the EU, Boris Johnson said:
“I don’t wish in any way to sound complacent but I have been travelling in Japan and the now beautiful New Zealand and any such activities completely passed me by …. no one has sent me news of any such infighting,” Boris Johnson told a news conference in Wellington.
“Our friends and partners around the world can be confident that we are going to get this thing done and done in style.”
