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23 - 29 May 2019
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“No appetite for Brexit” MEP candidate for Gibraltar talks exclusively to EWN By Tara Rippin AHEAD of the UK’s controversial participation in this week’s European Parliament elections, the Euro We e k l y N e w s c a u g h t u p with new party Change UK’s best-known candidate Rachel Johnson, in Gibraltar. Daughter of former MEP Stanley Johnson, and sister to high-profile MPs Boris and Jo, Rachel announced she would enter the political fray herself with the UK’s most recent proremain party. The well-known journalist and social figure, who is standing for Change UK in Gibraltar and South West, took time out of her campaign sched-
ule to speak to the EWN during a whirlwind 12-hour stop on the rock. Candidate Johnson first met with Chief Minister for Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, at the headquarters of Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar at Covent Place, where he said he “could see Change UK having more of a future in Westminster rather than Europe.” Explaining her
KEEP CALM: MEP candidate Rachel Johnson’s advice to EWN readers and all Britons living in Spain and Gibraltar.
motives for getting involved with Change UK, Johnson said she has lost faith in Parliament to find a solution before the October 31 Brexit deadline. She added: “Nobody k n o w s w h a t ’s g o i n g o n
from one minute to the next… there’s no appetite for any sort of Brexit and no majority for Theresa May’s deal.” Asked what words she had for Britons living in Spain and Gibraltar, John-
son said: “Keep calm. These things need a lot of negotiation, but British people in Spain are not going to be thrown under the bus, by the UK or Spain, t h a t ’s n o t g r o w n u p p o l i tics.”