Senior UK officials urge May to sack Boris Johnson
UK Prime Minister Theresa May is being pressured to sack Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in order to reassert her authority.
Senior members of May’s Conservative Party, speaking on condition of anonymity, said several lawmakers are pushing May to fire Johnson after he has recently appeared to take a different position on Brexit.
Johnson said late last month that the two-year post-Brexit transition deal should be “done as fast as possible,” and that the period should last “not a second more” than two years for the UK.
May proposed in her Florence address last month that a two-year transitional period to be started after the UK leaves the European Union in 2019. Germany and France, however, have refused to approve the proposal, saying that Britain’s EU divorce bill should be resolved first.
Three conservative lawmakers also called for Johnson to be sacked after his controversial remarks about Libya.
Johnson said on Tuesday that British investors could turn the Libyan city of Sirte into a world-class tourist attraction if they could only “clear the dead bodies away.”
The Lybian city fell to Daesh Takfiri terrorists in February 2015. Daesh has taken advantage of a chaos gripping Libya since 2011, when a NATO military intervention followed the 2011 uprising that led to the toppling and killing of the longtime dictator, Muammar Gaddafi.
After a two-day visit to Libya in August, Johnson also said that the ouster of Gaddafi was a "tragedy so far."
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