Johnson returns to London to drum up support for Brexit deal

Johnson returns to London to drum up support for Brexit deal. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves podium after dressing a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. Britain and European Union reached a new tentative Brexit deal on Thursday, hoping to finally escape acrimony, divisions, and frustration of ir three-year divorce battle. 

After winning support of European Union leers for his new Brexit deal, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is back in London to try to secure backing from fractious British Parliament. Johnson returned overnight for what is expected to be a busy Friday attempting to persue lawmakers to vote for divorce deal.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was up early drumming up support. He told BBC: “We’ve got a real opportunity w to get Brexit delivered faithful to referendum, move on as a Government, and I think as a country, and lift clouds of Brexit.”Raab says government has t given up hope of winning support of its rrn Ireland ally Democratic Unionist Party, which has rejected new deal.