Trump or Europe? Johnson to sample post-Brexit reality at G7 summit


  • World
  • Wednesday, 21 Aug 2019

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends a meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan (not pictured) at 10 Downing Street in London, Britain August 7, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Pool

LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Boris Johnson is about to feel the pinch of Brexit Britain's new global status: squeezed on one side by Europeans in no mood to yield, and on the other by a United States driving a hard bargain for its economic support.

With a deepening political crisis at home, Johnson makes his international debut at a gathering of G7 leaders in the French resort of Biarritz on Saturday, less than three months before the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union.

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