Newly-appointed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has named his younger brother Jo Johnson a minister of state at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He made the appointment on Wednesday. Jo was the transport minister of the UK, but resigned last year over former Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plan. After taking office, Johnson said he will have Britain out of the European Union by the October 31st deadline. CGTN's Richard Bestic has the details.

After securing Royal approval, the UK's new prime minister begins what could be a turbulent time in office. Having comfortably secured the vote of Conservative Party members, Boris Johnson spoke to the British public for the first time since taking the reins at Number Ten Downing Street. His messages, upbeat.

BORIS JOHNSON UK PRIME MINISTER "The doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters. They are going to get it wrong again. The people who bet against Britain are going to lose their shirts because we're going to restore trust in our democracy. And we're going to fulfil the repeated promises of Parliament to the people and come out of the EU on October 31st. No ifs or buts."

Johnson though has just a hundred days to come up with a solution to a problem that has confounded all Europe for three years.

And there are no easy options if the country's to leave the European Union by the autumn as the new man in the UK's top job insists.

The EU, unmoved by appeals for changes to a Withdrawal Agreement that took 18 months to negotiate. And the UK Parliament refusing any suggestion of a "no deal" Brexit.

RICHARD BESTIC LONDON "With an apparently ever-shrinking majority, Johnson may be tempted by the attractions of an early general election, seeking a majority he desperately needs to force a 'no deal' Brexit through Parliament. It would though be a hugely high-risk gamble."

It was just such a gamble his immediate predecessor, Theresa May tried and lost.  On her way out, May gave a rare Parliamentary standing ovation after three years and 11 days in office, repeatedly trying and failing to get her Brexit deal through Parliament.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond among a significant number of ministers who have also left saying they couldn't bring themselves to serve in a Johnson government.

So, everything's changed and nothing's changed. A new UK Prime Minister, certainly, with a dramatically different style, definitely. But the same hurdles of the last three years and importantly the same Parliamentary arithmetic. Just a lot less time till the next deadline comes along. RB, CGTN, London.