Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt vowed to spend billions of pounds on public servic...
LONDON - Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt vowed to spend billions of pounds on public services, infrastructure and tax cuts on Sunday as the two men battling to become prime minister pitched themselves as the best candidate to take on the opposition Labour Party.
Johnson, the favorite, vowed to increase spending on education, adding to earlier pledges to invest in transport, superfast broadband, more police and tax cuts. With Britain now due to leave the European Union on Oct. 31, much of the debate has revolved around how the two candidates would steer the world’s fifth-largest economy out of the world’s biggest trading bloc without crippling growth.
“If we had a no-deal Brexit then some of these spending commitments would have to wait because you would have to divert money to support businesses up and down the country,” Hunt told BBC TV. “I wouldn’t drop them but they would take longer. Hunt said he had been in talks with the former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, who negotiated a trade deal with the EU.
Asked by Sky News how he could seal a new deal when the EU has said it will not reopen the withdrawal agreement, Johnson said “it’s possibly the case that they would say that at this particular stage in the negotiations ... Let’s see”.
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