February 13, 2025
New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has taken charge with a speed and decisiveness which are historic.
It is going to be a wild ride for Britain – and a very enjoyable partnership for the United States.
It is going to be a wild ride for Britain – and a very enjoyable partnership for the United States.

New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has taken charge with a speed and decisiveness which are historic. Whether he can finish Brexit by October 31 – and win a general election – remains to be seen.

However, Johnson has already made a huge imprint on British government and politics in his first days in office.

During his first appearance in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Johnson spoke for two and a half hours and answered 129 questions. It was a tour de force for a man whose personality is so strong and so unique it is easy to forget how smart, how strategic, and intelligent he is.

His friends from college recount that he was already thinking about becoming Prime Minister as an undergraduate, and they all assumed he would get to No. 10 Downing Street.

When Prime Minister David Cameron resigned after losing the referendum on staying in the European Union, it was widely thought that the choice of Theresa May to be Prime Minister might have meant the end of Boris Johnson’s ambitions. However, he may have been fortunate in letting her go first because her exhausting failure and humiliating collapse as a leader created a vacuum in which the vast majority of Conservatives were eager for a strong, aggressive, and personally dynamic leader. Johnson’s moment had come.

He made clear in his first hours as Prime Minister that he was about much more than simply leaving the European Union. In the Johnson world, Brexit is a first step toward a better future and not an end in itself.

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