President Donald Trump has said Johnson would make a 'great prime minister,' and he'll likely win the role before the end of July.
Boris Johnson, the Conservative Party politician on course to become Britain's next prime minister, denied accusations that he is a right-wing populist over his hardline position on Brexit and his history of offensive remarks.
"I don't know where it all comes from. It's complete hysteria. But there you go. People will say all sorts of extraordinary things and you just have to keep trying to correct them," said Johnson, who is the frontrunner to win the leadership ahead of rival Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary. "I tell you what, I remember before I became mayor in 2008 there were a whole bunch of lefties who promised, faithfully, to leave the city or the country if I was elected...And at the end of eight years, most of them were working for me, actually, and certainly supporting me," Johnson said.
", referring to him as a friend. The British parliamentarian has also met with Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist and Trump 2016 campaign chairman who wants to help spur on a populist uprising in Europe.
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