Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

President Donald Trump has proved to be a big fan of imposing financial sanctions as a

backdoor to foreign policy without the messy business of military action. But the old-fashioned

front-door diplomacy might work better and spare unnecessary misery.

And there are just 4,000 tigers now in the wild. But more than twice that number are being

held in farms across Asia to be demand for illegal products like tiger-bond line, skins,

and jewelry. Our correspondent tries at least to visit one.

But first, when asked as a child what he wanted to be when he grew up, Prime Minister

Boris Johnson reportedly replied, world king. His sights have lowered, but not by much.

Today he'll retake his seat in Parliament with a vastly strengthened majority of 80.

Not since Margaret Thatcher's election victory in 1987, as Mr. Johnson's party had so

much power. And first on his agenda, the follow-through on his election mantra to get

Brexit done.

The British divorce from the European Union now looks certain to happen by the end of next

month. Not only that, Mr. Johnson wants to make it law that the subsequent trade negotiations

must be concluded by the end of next year. Such a push once again raises the specter of

a so-called hard Brexit. But, unlike Theresa May before him, what Mr. Johnson wants, Mr.

Johnson is now very likely to get.

I think when Parliament resumes this afternoon, the scenes will be pretty raucous.

John Pete is our Brexit editor.

There'll be a lot of young MPs, new MPs who don't even know, do way around the building,

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