24 Jul 2019

Reaction to Boris Johnson being elected UK Prime Minister

From First Up, 5:19 am on 24 July 2019

To the UK, Boris Johnson will become the country's next prime minister after being voted as the new Conservative leader in a ballot by party members. The results were announced just a few hours ago showing Mr Johnson beat rival Jeremy Hunt comfortably, by about 45,000 votes. Our UK correspondent Alex Cadier joins us now.