‘Early Christmas present’: Boris Johnson on track for decisive election victory
- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will promise to bring his Brexit deal back to parliament before Christmas
- Opinion polls show Johnson’s Conservative Party commands a sizeable lead over the Labour Party
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was set to unveil his Conservative Party’s manifesto on Sunday, pledging to move on from Brexit and austerity in a bid to secure a general election victory.
Having taken over a minority administration in July and unable to speed his EU divorce deal through parliament, Johnson is seeking a majority at the December 12 snap general election.
He sees Britain’s third general election in four and a half years as the only way to break the logjam on Brexit, which 52 per cent of voters plumped for in the seismic 2016 referendum.
Having got the Brexit date delayed three months from October 31 to January 31, opposition parties backed his call for an early general election.
“My early Christmas present to the nation will be to bring the Brexit bill back before the festive break, and get parliament working for the people,” Johnson will say, according to excerpts of his speech that he will make at an event in the West Midlands region of England.
Contrasting with Labour’s unabashed tax-and-spend approach, Johnson’s manifesto – titled “Get Brexit Done, Unleash Britain’s Potential” – will pledge to freeze income tax, value-added sales tax and social security payments.