What to expect from the new prime minister

Mark Middleton

Mark Middleton assesses what we know so far of Boris Johnson’s policies

We have a new prime minister. None of us voted for him and, barring a parliamentary coup, Boris Johnson will take the country out of the EU and into the next general election in May 2022.

That’s just under three years living in Boris’s Britain. If we were to put all the politics, personality and no-deal angst to one side, what can architects expect from our new PM and his cabinet?

Based on first evidence, Johnson wants to be a populist prime minister looking at the whole of the UK and a lot of his early attention has been focused on the north of England and Scotland.

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