Brexit... Boris Johnson Asserts He Will Stay as PM

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday he would stay in his position as polls showed he might lose his own seat at parliament.

During an interview with BBC’s Andrew Marr, since agreeing a post-Brexit trade deal with Brussels, Johnson said he would continue as prime minister, insisting that there were reasons to be optimistic about the country’s future.

Britons described on social media the reality of life outside the EU, as those who legally residing on the continent were being turned away from flights amid confusion over paperwork.

Regarding possibility of a new vote on the independence of Scotland, Johnson said that referendums should not be held more than once in a generation.

Johnson stated that the only point he wanted to stress was that the referendums, by virtue of his first-hand experience in this country, were not a particularly pleasant event.

In the same page, he was pressed over whether the restrictions were doing enough, as hospitals are filled up with Covid-19 patients.

“It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country, I'm fully fully reconciled with that,” he asserted. “I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that,” he added.

“There are obviously a range of tougher measures that we would have to consider,” he affirmed. “I don't want to speculate, I'm not going to speculate now about what they would be.”

“Clearly, school closures that we had to do in March is one of those things,” he added.

The Prime Minister has told parents to send their children to primary school in most of England on Monday, repeating the message that it is safe to do so.

Nonetheless, the PM asserted that restrictions in England are "probably going to get tougher" in the coming weeks as the UK struggles to control the new coronavirus strain, noting that  this might include closing schools.