MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. Resignation of UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will hardly bring about any radical changes in the UK foreign policies, including the policies towards Russia, believes senator Konstatin Kosachev, the chief of the foreign relations committee in the upper house of Russian parliament.
British Prime Minister Theresa May accepted Johnson’s resignation on Monday, the cabinet press office said.
"I don’t think there’ll be any sharp changes in the UK’s foreign policy course, including its Russian segment," Kosachev tweeted in Facebook.
"The British Foreign Office and the cabinet on the whole have gone too far to start pulling back now but a definite chance to try and rectify the situation, at least to some degree, has surfaced, and whether or not London chooses to use it is a question to Theresa May and her remaining ministers," he wrote.
Johnson’s resignations offers a yet one more testimony to an aggravating political crisis in the UK, which takes root in the country’s pullout from the EU, Kosachev believes.
He recalled Sunday’s resignation of Brexit Secretary David Davis. "The fact the eccentric Foreign Secretary [Johnson] followed him confirms the presence of serious problems in the Theresa May cabinet," he said.
Kosachev pointed to the agreement on Brexit, which the UK and the EU coordinated on Sunday, saying it had triggered harsh criticism on the part of British hardliners and Eurosceptics who found May’s scenario to be pusillanimous.
May’s proposals envision the maintenance of a free trade zone with the EU in what concerns manufactured commodities and agricultural produce and contain the idea of a customs union.