Hq this afternoon before going on to address influential backbenchers, promising to deliver brexit by october 31st. The president of the Eu Commission and the eus chief negotiator both say they look forward to working with him. And President Trump has congratulated mrjohnson saying, he will be great. One other news story a heatwave is spreading across the uk, with temperatures expected to climb to well over 30 degrees celsius this week. Its five oclock our top story borisjohnson has promised to energise the country, after winning victory in the tory leadership contest. He secured two thirds of members votes, comfortably defeating the foreign secretaryjeremy hunt. Mrjohnson will officially become Prime Minister tomorrow after a meeting with the queen at Buckingham Palace. In his victory speech, mrjohnson promised to unite the country and deliver brexit by the deadline of 31st october. But hes already seen some ministerial resignations and there could be more as several cabinet members h
The president of the Eu Commission and the eus chief negotiator both say they look forward to working with mrjohnson. President trump was one of the first to congratulate him saying he will be great. And in other news a heatwave is spreading across the uk, with temperatures expected to climb to well over 30 degrees celsius this week. This time tomorrow borisjohnson will be our new Prime Minister, realising a decades long ambition. Hes won the race to become conservative party leader, beating his rivaljeremy hunt by a margin of almost two to one. In a short acceptance speech this afternoon mrjohnson declared that his mission was to take britain out of the eu by the 31st of october and re unite the country. But the challenges are formidable opposition from some of his partys most senior mps and little sign that the eu is about to change its negotiating position. Heres our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg on the election of the man who tomorrow will become britains seventy seventh Prime
Minister pleads not guilty to corruption charges as he and 15 other officials appear in court and why dont hold a National Assembly session in the streets as venezuela recovers from another mass blackouts. And in sport audience cricketers are getting ready to make history there at her parents place in a test match for the 1st song. Bombastic politician who led the campaign for brics it now has to deliver it Boris Johnson has won the race to the u. K. s ruling party i will become Prime Minister on wednesday is vowed to take the u. K. Ause of the e. U. By the end of october come what may but he also needs to unite a divided party and an even more divided nation me foka reports. It was a 2 horse race but theres only have a been one front runner Boris Johnson demolished his rival foreign secretary jeremy hunt with double the number of votes to become leader of the conservatives and on wednesday the country its now repair a party and the nation torn apart by bricks it deliver bricks it unit
Trevor welcome to the daily show, everybody. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you for coming out i appreciate you. Lets do this. Im trevor noah. Our guest tonight is an actor from suits now starring in a brandnew Spinoff Series called pearson. Gina torres is joining us, everybody. cheers and applause also on tonights show, Robert Mueller finally testifies on capitol hill; lewis black heads to the beach; and if you have a snow globe, you could be smuggling drugs. So lets catch up on todays headlines. Lets kick it off with some breaking news from puerto rico. After weeks of protests over corruption and leaked text messages, Governor Ricardo Rossello is expected to resign from office. Yeah. applause hes going out. applause now, he said he doesnt want to do it, and hes reportedly devastated and crying tears over the situation. Luckily, President Trump threw him some boxes of kleenex to dry his eyes. laughter and while puerto rico is saying goodbye to its leader, Great Britain is welc
And to advise her to ask Boris Johnson to form a new administration. I repeat my warm congratulations to boris on winning the conservative leadership election. I wish him and the government he will lead every good fortune in the months and years ahead. Their successes will be our countrys successes and i hope that they will be many. Their achievements women build on the work of nearly a decade of conservative or conservative led government. During that time our economy has been restored, our Public Services reformed and our values defended on the world stage. Of course much remains to be done. The immediate priority being to complete our exit from the European Union in a way that works for the whole United Kingdom. With success in that task can come a new beginning for our country, a National Renewal that can move us beyond the current impasse into the Bright Future the british people deserve. To serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the greatest honor. The heavy responsibil