Deal or no deal, we leave EU on October 31 – UK PM candidate Boris Johnson

LONDON: Boris Johnson, frontrunner to be Britain`s next prime minister, promised on Monday to lead the country out of the European Union on Oct. 31 with or without an exit deal, launching his leadership bid in a campaign video.

Prime Minister Theresa May is due to resign on Friday having failed to deliver Brexit on schedule. She leaves behind her a divided nation and parliament with no consensus on the way ahead for the world`s fifth largest economy.

Johnson, a former foreign minister who resigned in protest at May`s handling of Brexit, is the bookmakers` favourite to win a crowded contest and take over the running of the country at its most important strategic juncture in decades.