The UK has turned its back on the “supranational project” of the EU and will go back to making its own way in the world after a “thumping” victory for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party, Sky News host Chris Kenny says.
“One of the most influential nations in the history of the modern world, once a vast colonial power, still a permanent member of the UN Security Council, a nuclear power to boot, the world’s fifth-largest military nation and fifth-largest economy, the
UK has turned its back on the supranational project of the EU,” he said. “Brexit will now happen next month. “No one in Brussels or the UN, in New York or Geneva for that matter, ought to be telling the British how to be running their country.” Image: AP
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