Britain’s Boris Johnson, the former foreign minister, ex-mayor of London and leading Brexit campaigner, confirmed he would run for the premiership when Theresa May quits, British media reported.

“Of course I’m going to go for it,” he told a business event in Manchester, northwest England, confirming what most commentators and colleagues have long assumed.

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