US President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon has expressed hope that former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson would challenge UK Prime Minister Theresa May after quitting her cabinet earlier in the week.
Bannon made the remarks Saturday in an interview with British Daily Telegraph newspaper, insisting that now was not the “right time” for a politician like May to lead the UK.
“Theresa May has got a lot of great qualities – I am not sure if it is the right leader at the right time,” said Bannon, who played a key role in Trump’s successful presidential campaign in 2016 election but was fired by the US president in August 2017.
“Now is the moment,” he added as quoted by the daily. “If Boris Johnson looks at this… There comes an inflection point, the Chequers deal was an inflection point, we will have to see what happens.”
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