Johnson's "do or die" Brexit pledge risks election, no EU exit - PM candidate Hunt
LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) - The promise by Boris Johnson, frontrunner to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May, that Britain will be out of the EU on Oct. 31 with or without an exit deal risks prompting an election and no Brexit all, his rival Jeremy Hunt said on Wednesday.
"If we do it in this kind of 'do or die way,' the risk is that we'll just trip into a general election because parliament will stop it, as they did in March, and then we'll have (Labour leader Jeremy) Corbyn in Downing Street, and there will be no Brexit at all," foreign minister Hunt told BBC radio.
On Tuesday, Johnson told TalkRADIO that Britain would leave the bloc on Oct. 31 "do or die, come what may." (Reporting by Kate Holton; writing by Costas Pitas; editing by Stephen Addison)
