In addition, the United Kingdom is immersed in the deepest cost of living crisis in decades, with inflation reaching the highest level in the last 40 years.
Despite calls for him to step down, Johnson said he wants to serve a third term and remain prime minister until the mid-2030s to give himself time to reduce regional economic disparities and make changes to America’s immigration and legal systems. United Kingdom.
“Right now I am actively thinking about a third term and what might happen then. I will review it when I get to it though,” Johnson told reporters in Rwanda on the last day of a visit to a Commonwealth summit.
When asked what he meant, Johnson said: “About a third period … this is in the mid-2030s.”
Johnson must call the next British national election before December 2024, and would need a third electoral victory before 2029.
If he were to remain in office beyond early 2031, he would break Margaret Thatcher’s record as the longest-serving British Prime Minister since Robert Banks Jenkinson, the Earl of Liverpool, who served from 1812 to 1827. .