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…