I like it. Its brilliant. From the master of the photo op to the highest office in the land boris the man, boris the politician. Also on tonights programme were heading into another heatwave. Forecasters say we could see record temperatures and there are warnings about looking after the vulnerable. And coming up on bbc news. After clinching bronze in the 200m freestyle at the world aquatics championships, britons duncan scott causes controversy by refusing to shake hands with chinas gold medallist. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. 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 party
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
Borisjohnson has won the conservative leadership election and will become the uks Prime Minister tomorrow. He beat his opponentjeremy hunt by some margin, nearly double, with over 92,000 votes. Heres a little of his acceptance speech. And we know the mantra of the campaign that isjust gone by. In case you have forgotten it, you probably have because its been a while since weve covered it. It is deliver brexit, unite the country and defeat jeremy corbyn. And that is what we are going to do and i know some lad has alreary pointed out that deliver, unite and defeat is not the perfect acronym for an Election Campaign since unfortunately, it spells dud. But they forgot the final e, my friend. E forenergise the Deputy Editor of the guardian points out and the leader of the opposition has warned that mrjohnson may not be able to hold on to powerfor long. Jeremy corbyn says labour will table a vote of no confidence in the new pm, but he wont say when. We will decide when that will be. It will
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