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		</div><p>Boris Johnson has pledged to get the UK “match fit for no deal” to ensure it can leave the European Union on October 31 “come what may”.</p>
<p>The Tory leadership frontrunner said there would be “no second chances” as he stressed that Halloween was a real deadline, “not a fake one” – a comment aimed at his rival Jeremy Hunt.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson’s commitment to stick to the deadline comes after he was warned that more than 30 Tories could rebel to block a no-deal Brexit if he tried to force it through Parliament.</p>
<blockquote><p>We need a change of direction. That’s why we must treat October 31 as a real deadline for leaving the EU, come what may, not a fake one</p></blockquote>
<p>Writing on the BrexitCentral website, Mr Johnson took aim at Mr Hunt, who referred to October 31 as a “fake deadline” – before later admitting he should have described his rival’s commitment to leave on that date as a “fake promise”.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson said: “We need a change of direction. That’s why we must treat October 31 as a real deadline for leaving the EU, come what may, not a fake one.”</p>
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<p>He restated his promise to protect the rights of EU expats in the UK and to put the £39 billion divorce settlement in a state of “creative ambiguity” to use as leverage to secure a deal.</p>
<p>Discussions about the thorny issue of the Irish border would be put into the talks on the future trading relationship under his plan.</p>
<p>“If our friends feel they cannot agree, then we will be match fit for no deal.”</p>
<p>The UK would have the “fiscal firepower” to provide cash to support business and farmers affected by a no-deal Brexit.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson also signalled that the UK would be prepared to tear up red tape and slash taxes.</p>
<p>“We will be free to substantially diverge on tax and regulation,” he said.</p>
<p>“I have had enough of being told that we cannot do it – that the sixth biggest economy in the world is not strong enough to run itself and go forward in the world.”</p>
<figure id="attachment_135720" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-135720" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="size-full wp-image-135720" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/1F8EF82B-4DB7-489B-9139-C9631818E77A.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="399" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-135720" class="wp-caption-text">Conservative leadership contender Jeremy Hunt</figcaption></figure>
<p>Mr Johnson, frontman for the Vote Leave campaign, said he felt a “deep sense of personal responsibility for Brexit”, adding: “This is it. No second chances.</p>
<p>“We can choose more of the same, or we can choose change: delivering Brexit on October 31, uniting the country and beating (Jeremy) Corbyn.”</p>
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<p>Mr Johnson also used his regular Daily Telegraph column to argue the case for increasing access to apprenticeships.</p>
<p>“We need to make sure that we not only properly fund all manner of technical and vocational education – from further education colleges to apprenticeships – and if I am lucky enough to be elected, we will.”</p>
<p>The newspaper reported that Mr Johnson would aim to boost non-university options as ways of getting ahead and reinvigorate plans for a £100 million “retraining fund” to give workers useful skills.</p>
<p>The scale of the challenge facing Mr Johnson to steer a no-deal Brexit through a hostile Commons was underlined by former leadership hopeful Sam Gyimah.</p>
<p>He suggested “about 30, 30-plus” Tories would vote to block Mr Johnson suspending Parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit.</p>
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