Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson speaks in Parliament in London, Britain, March 12, 2019, in this screen grab taken from video. Reuters TV via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) - Former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, one of the fiercest opponents of Theresa May’s Brexit plan, is now edging towards backing her deal, Telegraph deputy political editor Steven Swinford said on Tuesday. “Boris Johnson edges towards backing the Prime Minister’s deal,” he said on Twitter, quoting Johnson as saying at an event: “if we vote it down again, there is an appreciable and growing sense that we will not leave at all. That is the risk.” Reporting by Stephen Addison; editing by Alistair Smout … [Read more...] about Hardline Brexiteer Boris Johnson edging towards May’s deal
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Theresa May’s Government is ‘chicken’ and has ‘bottled it’ over Brexit, Boris Johnson says
Theresa May's Government is "chicken" and has "bottled it completely" over Brexit, Boris Johnson has said as he urged her to "tell Brussels let my people go". Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Johnson said Mrs May must "channel the spirit of Moses" as he called on the Prime Minister to abandon her deal and "come out of the EU now". Mr Johnson said: “We are not leaving this Friday because the government has chickened out. For almost three years every Tory MP has chirruped the mantra that no deal would be better than a bad deal. “I believed that the government was sincere in making that claim, and I believed that the PM genuinely had the 29th of March inscribed in her heart. “I am afraid I misread... To continue reading this article Start your free trial of Premium Access all Premium articles Subscriber-only events Cancel any time Free for 30 days then only £2 per week Try Premium Access one Premium article per week … [Read more...] about Theresa May’s Government is ‘chicken’ and has ‘bottled it’ over Brexit, Boris Johnson says
Brexit: Boris Johnson claims no deal is ‘closest to what people voted for’
With Boris Johnson making the case for a no-deal Brexit (see 9.24am), the pro-Brexit thinktank Global Britain and Labour Leave have published a joint report (pdf) spelling out that they say are “30 truths” about this option. Rather than “no deal”, it should be called “WTO +++”, they say. The report has been jointly written by Peter Lilley, the Conservative former trade secretary, and Brendan Chilton, general secretary of Labour Leave. David Henig, the trade expert and former civil servant who now heads the UK Trade Policy Project, has been factchecking the claims. He reckons that only around a quarter are wholly true. … [Read more...] about Brexit: Boris Johnson claims no deal is ‘closest to what people voted for’
Brexit: Boris Johnson says PM can stay if backstop is scrapped
0 Have your say Boris Johnson has said Theresa May can stay on as Prime Minister if her Brexit deal is defeated on Tuesday - as long as she returns to Brussels and demands it abandons the Irish border backstop. The former Foreign Secretary refused to rule out a leadership bid against the Prime Minister, but said she could stay on even if MPs reject her Brexit deal this week.If defeated in the Commons on Tuesday, he said work to prepare for a no-deal Brexit should begin “in earnest” to convince the EU the UK was “serious”.Mr Johnson claimed the backstop measure left the UK open to "blackmail" by the European Union.READ MORE: Brexit: Scots prefer independence to no-deal, poll finds"It is a diabolical negotiating position."Asked if he would promise not to stand against the Prime Minister he said: "I will give you an absolute, categorical promise that I will continue to advocate what I think is the most sensible plan."But he said it was … [Read more...] about Brexit: Boris Johnson says PM can stay if backstop is scrapped
DUP Conference: Brexiteer Boris Johnson calls for backstop to be ‘junked’
BORIS Johnson has joined the DUP in calling for the ditching of the backstop in the UK-EU withdrawal deal. The former foreign secretary and leading Brexiteer said the guarantee to avoid a hard border would leave Britain a “satellite state” of the EU and turn Northern Ireland into an "economic semi-colony”. Mr Johnson, who resigned from the Tory cabinet in July in protest over Theresa May’s so-called Chequers Brexit plan, was guest speaker at Saturday’s DUP conference in Belfast. “Unless we junk this backstop, we will find that Brussels has got us exactly where they want us – a satellite state,” he told a receptive audience. “We will continue to accept the terms under which they have a surplus in trade in goods with us of £95 billion pounds but with no power to influence those terms.” He said Northern Ireland was the EU’s “indispensable bargaining chip” in the next round of negotiations and that in the … [Read more...] about DUP Conference: Brexiteer Boris Johnson calls for backstop to be ‘junked’