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Johnson Replaces May as Britain’s Prime Minister

Posted by on Aug 5, 2019 in Current Events
Houses of Parliament
Houses of Parliament. Credit: DenisTangneyJr/iStockphoto/Getty Images

This week’s story update on the Election Central Web updates you on a change in government across the Atlantic.

Here in the U.S., all eyes are currently focused on the upcoming 2020 presidential election. But across the ocean, Great Britain saw a change in political power last week that will undoubtedly have an effect on the United States as well. Prime Minister Theresa May was replaced by Boris Johnson, a politician with a reputation for being divisive. Here, Election Central takes a closer look at what happened, as well as at some of the possible impacts of this change.

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