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Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has heaped praise on the Country's Prime Minister Theresa May for her efforts so far in working towards a successful Brexit reassuring her that her top ministers were united behind her.

Johnson, who led the leave campaign in last year's EU referendum, had provoked the ire of cabinet colleagues by repeatedly attempting to portray himself as the champion of a genuinely ‘bold Brexit'.

"Based on that Florence speech on whose every syllable, I can tell you, the whole cabinet is united," Johnson told Conservative Party activists in the northern English city of Manchester.

"You won – we won. Theresa May won," he said. "The whole country owes her a debt for her steadfastness in taking Britain forward, as she will, to a great Brexit deal."

Ahead of Johnson's speech, May repeatedly faced questions from reporters about whether she would sack Johnson. She sidestepped those questions.