Boris Johnson will make every person in his Cabinet promise to leave EU by October 31 – or they’ll be sacked
BORIS Johnson will make everyone in his Cabinet promise to commit to leave the EU by October 31 - or they'll be sacked.
The frontrunner to become Tory leader says that he will expect everyone in his top team to agree with his policy to leave, deal or no deal.
That could rule out some Tories from serving in his Cabinet if he gets into No10.
He said in an interview with this morning: "I want obviously to have a broad range of talent in my Government, the Government that I will lead, but clearly people must be reconciled to the very, very, very small possibility, and I stress it will be a very, very small possibility, that we would have to leave on those terms.
";I don’t think it will happen but they would have to be reconciled to it."
Greg Clark, Amber Rudd and David Gauke have all been vocal in their opposition to leaving without a deal.
Rory Stewart today said that this was why he won't be able to serve under Boris.
Boris' rival Mr Hunt has said he will only leave without a deal "with a heavy heart".
But Boris insisted: "People expected us to leave. If we continue to delay, if we treat this as a fake deadline, then I think the voters will be very frustrated indeed.
"And I think that our party, the Conservative Party, which I fought for for a very long time across this country, I think that we will not easily recover.
"Cabinet colleagues understand that.
"And I think they also understand, intellectually, that you have to keep no deal on the table. Not only keep no deal on the table but you have to prepare for it actively and with confidence.
"And it’s very striking in the last couple of week, perhaps even the last couple of days, to hear some outbreaks of common sense.
Boris said the "parliamentary mood has changed" and MPs now want to get on with leaving.
I don’t think it will happen but they [cabinet ministers] would have to be reconciled to it
Boris on No Deal promise
"I really think there is no objective reason at all why we should not leave on 31st October.
"[The British people] don’t want is more pointless can-kicking. They want a decision, and they want action.
"I will try to work very, very hard to get this thing through," he added.
The huge mandate he got from Tory MPs shows that people want his strong Brexit stance, Boris argued.
"I think people can see the existential threat that we face."
Boris Johnson also used his interview to explain why he won't talk about his row with Carrie which sparked a frantic callout from the police.
He said when talking about private matters: "it is quite difficult to say things without dragging people in who are not political figures.
“All it does is divert people’s attention. It frustrates voters actually."
Earlier this week he told two voters that there would be "no more rows" with his girlfriend and it was "all quiet now" but he's failed to address what really happened.
A fresh poll of Tories this morning showed Boris is on for a landslide win.
He's got he support of 65 per cent of members, compared to Hunt who has 30 per cent.
Last night Boris said the chances of leaving without a deal were "a million to one" but he was still committed to it if it's the only way to deliver Brexit.
It comes as a fresh poll of voters showed that the majority of Brits want Brexit to happen - more than at the time of the EU referendum in 2016.
Boris promises points based immigration system
BORIS Johnson has said that a proper points-based system is needed for Britain after Brexit.
The frontrunner for the leadership said it would help the economy to rank jobs in terms of their worth.
Only Brits who had enough points would be able to come to Britain to work.
Today Mr Johnson refused to commit to a numbers target for his immigration policy.
He told ITV news: "We would have to make sure we get a system that delivers for the economic needs for this country.
"And planly at the moment, it is not working.
"One of the reasons people voted to take back control of our immigration system was they felt they wanted oversight of it."
And he added, to cheers from crowds: "We want a system that is subject to democratic control."
Boris and fellow Vote Leave campaigner Michael Gove pledged to introduce such a system before the next election if the UK votes for Brexit on 23 June.
The campaign group said that prospective migrants must learn to speak English and have relevant skills for a job too.
But Boris was forced to drop the plans when he was foreign secretary under Theresa May.
She made clear after she took office that she thought the plans wouldn't work - and BoJo fell into line.
After a meeting with his Aussie counterpart, the Foreign Secretary said the “crucial” point of his promise was to “take back control” of Britain’s borders.
Probed on his position by The Sun, Boris said: “the crucial utensil that needs to be applied is, of course, control and you may remember there was a campaign on which the slogan was ‘take back control’”.
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Last night Boris vowed to to get "this country out of the EU by October 31. That is what we are going to do."
The next PM should be someone who "believed in the project of Brexit" he insisted in a jibe at his Remain-voting rival.
And he said it was "right to go for Australian-style points-based system so that the needs of the economy can be met" after we leave.
But when asked whether he would team up with Brexit Party boss Mr Farage to get us out of the EU, Boris replied: "absolutely not".
Meanwhile, his rival Mr Hunt blasted Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as a "crocodile" who is "lurking" under the water of British politics.
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