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According to the UK's hottest weather service, the UK has been confronted with its own political hell: Boris Johnson's first parliamentary session. With his blonde Beatle fringe, with his particular stuttering style, infected by 39 degrees of temperature, Johnson promised that the UK would once again become the "maximum planetary power".

The formula adopted by the new Prime Minister to achieve this goal has not made us forget what he said in the conservative internal campaign that catapulted him to power: to leave the European Union with or without agreement, open free ports, sign free trade agreements the planet and defeat the pessimists who do not respect their promises. "I think we can come out with an agreement and I will work hard to get there, but if that does not happen, we will leave on October 31 because it was the democratic will of the British," Johnson said.

You never know with Johnson because his style has always had a distinctly parodic component, supported by an extravagant hyperbole, that dilutes the line between seriousness and joking, and serves as a loophole in case he remembers his own statements. This style has been successful in his career as a journalist, deputy and even in his two terms as mayor of London, but he faces head-on the conditions of a prime minister in one of the most serious crises since after war.

In parliament, Johnson reiterated his rejection of Theresa May's agreement last November, including the "Backstop", a mechanism to address the UK's only land border problem with the United States. European Union, which separates Ireland. Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. "Parliament has rejected this agreement three times," said Johnson.

The agreement has two parts: the terms of the separation of the United Kingdom and the EU (unpaid debts, status of the citizens of both parties and the Irish border) and the declaration of principles concerning the The future of relations between the two parties. In Brussels, the EU has repeatedly stated that a comma of what was agreed on "divorce" would not be changed: the declaration of principles could at most be changed.

Labor opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn jokes about Johnson's goals. "Nobody underestimates the country, but the country fears that the Prime Minister will overestimate himself. Inherit of a country that has been shaved by nine years of austerity. This has had an impact on boys and young people, youth clubs have been closed, education has been cut wildly and tuition at the university has tripled. Housing is more expensive than ever. The lowest wages. And now, he promises a tax break for the rich and the businessmen who finance his party. His far-right cabinet has a minister of the interior who is in favor of the death penalty. And I am alarmed by the lack of plan regarding Brexit. He was part of the cabinet that accepted the "Backstop" and voted in favor on March 30 this year. Why is he now opposing the same thing he had voted less than four months ago? "Corbyn said.

The leader of the Labor Party has not called for a motion of censure, as claimed by other sectors of the opposition (the Greens, Liberal Democrats, Scottish Nationalists and Welsh Autonomists). Conscious that he will also need conservative rebels, Corbyn preferred saving gunpowder before resuming Parliament's work in early September and the Prime Minister suffered the wear and tear that his predecessor Theresa May suffered during of his travels in Brussels.

In current parliamentary arithmetic, the conservatives need the support of the Unionists of Northern Ireland to get a meager three-vote majority that could be reduced to two if the predictions of a liberal-democratic victory The renewal of a siege was confirmed Wales Among the 40 or so potential rebels, none will vote in favor of a motion of censure when creating a government of its own political sign. But given the composition of Boris Johnson's cabinet, overpopulated by the hardest of Brexit supporters, support for dissent seems inevitable unless Johnson demonstrates political capacity and ductility that does not seem to be part of his DNA. .

In addition to Priti Patel, Minister of the Interior for the death penalty, Foreign Minister Dominic Raab, Trade Minister Liz Truss and House of Commons cartoonist Jacob Rees- Mogg, draw attention to his cabinet. The Rees-Mogg accent is so extreme that it looks like a parody of the British upper clbad. Liz Truss wrote with Patel and Raab, "Britannia Unchained," a scandalous defense of the craziest globalization that has led Truss to portray the UK as "a nation made up of Airbnb, Uber and Deliveroo"

Of course, Johnson surprised with his openness in immigration policy. In parliament, he has guaranteed to the more than three million Europeans living in the UK that they "will have full rights to stay in the country". The Prime Minister has ruled in favor of an amnesty to regularize the situation of some 500,000 illegal immigrants and promised to eliminate the policy of reducing net migration to less than 100,000. a first parliamentary presentation full of fantastic promises and the optimism of a television host, it was a sign of realism.

The UK labor market relies heavily on immigration for essential services such as health and hospitality from its tourism industry (fifth in the world with more than 37 million tourists a year). According to the Office of National Statistics, there are 200,000 fewer Europeans in 2016, the year of the referendum in favor of the EU's exit. The Poles, beast of burden of the anti-European, represent more than half of this number: about 116,000 who are mostly returned to their country.