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'The Time Has Come To Act': Boris Johnson Takes The Helm As U.K. Prime Minister

The polarizing and showboating new prime minister has vowed to deliver on the U.K. leaving the European Union in October, whether or not a deal is reached.

Boris Johnson, the polarizing and showboating politician who led the campaign for Britain to leave the EU in 2016, is now officially in charge of ushering the country through that fraught and difficult divorce. With Theresa May's exit, Johnson took office as prime minister Wednesday.

"There are pessimists at home and abroad who think after three years of indecision that this country has become a prisoner to the old arguments

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