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‘We’ve got no plan. What will we do?’: Boris Johnson ‘shock at Brexit result’ revealed in new book
25/04/2023
A “distraught” Boris Johnson declared “we’ve got no plan” when he realised Vote Leave would win the Brexit referendum, a new book claims. / “We haven’t thought about it. I didn’t think it would happen. Holy c***, what will we do?”
‘We need more realism’: Boris Johnson’s EU diplomatic offensive fails as UK told to rewrite Brexit plans
07/10/2019
A British attempt to bypass Brussels for EU capitals fails once again.
Britain’s former ambassador to the European Union Ivan Rogers has predicted that Britain will leave the post-Brexit transition at the end of this year with no deal, describing Boris Johnson as a Trumpite politician who wants the EU to fail.
‘The UK dictator’: Newspapers across Europe react with fury and fear to Boris Johnson proroguing parliament
11/09/2019
Turmoil at home raises trepidation abroad - with European observers increasingly of view that British democracy is dying.
‘Suicidal treachery’: Tory grandee’s stark warning to Boris Johnson allies over Brexit revolt
20/02/2023
Ex-Foreign Office minister says plotters will ‘push party into oblivion’.
‘Please leave my town’: Yorkshire man tells Boris Johnson to go away during campaign walkabout
06/09/2019
'It is Dominic Cummings and you playing games with Parliament, playing games with the people of United Kingdom'
‘Parliaments are the house of democracy!’ EU parliament president slams Boris Johnson’s suspension of Commons
12/09/2019
David Sassoli says decision appears to hark back to another era.
‘Only in Brexit la la land Boris Johnson is seen as Putin’s leading opposition’ says Finnish prime minister
22/03/2022
Alexander Stubb, a former prime minister of Finland, has ridiculed the idea that Boris Johnson is one of Vladimir Putin’s fiercest opponents.
‘No-one died for Brexit’: Ukraine’s ex-president asks Boris Johnson not to compare referendum to fight against Russia
23/03/2022
‘With this situation, please, no comparison,’ said Petro Poroshenko
European leaders made their feelings about the Northern Ireland protocol known to a PM desperate to score a PR victory.
‘Keep calm and carry on’: France shrugs off threat of Royal Navy gunships guarding Channel fishing waters, as no-deal Brexit looms
13/12/2020
Boris Johnson to reveal whether negotiations are over – plunging trade with EU into turmoil in 19 days’ time
"The biggest lie that Johnson ever told, and the one that was most widely believed, was over Brexit", Martin Kettle said.
As night fell in the British capital on Tuesday, a massive projection depicting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as a criminal lit up the Houses of Parliament.
‘Personally, I won’t miss him,’ says French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.
‘I was lied to by Boris Johnson’: Why much of UK fishing is still waiting for a Brexit boost
21/01/2023
Almost four years after Johnson promised the fishing merchant the French would be desperate to buy his fish, the business has seen sales plummet 30% and export costs rise by as much as £3,000 a week.
‘How many Britons died?’ Former Ukraine president Poroshenko asks Boris Johnson not to compare war to Brexit [1 min]
23/03/2022
Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has suggested Boris Johnson was insensitive to compare Ukraine’s fight against Russia to Brexit.
‘Find you courage BBC’: Clip of Johnson promising seamless trade between GB and NI goes viral
10/06/2021
"There is no question of there being checks on goods going NI to GB or GB to NI," the prime minister said. / A clip of Boris Johnson promising there would be no checks on good going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland under his Brexit deal has been doing the rounds on social media after it was shared by lawyer Peter Stefanovic.
Next boss, thinktanks and unions criticise Boris Johnson, saying ‘shortages cannot be blustered away’
‘Complete lack of trust’ in Boris Johnson as honest broker in Northern Ireland, claims Keir Starmer
09/07/2021
Prime minister not being ‘straight’ about consequences of his Brexit protocol, says Labour leader.
‘Call it a frontstop’: How Leo Varadkar sold the Northern Ireland protocol to Boris Johnson
01/10/2022
Inside the deal struck at the Wirral, England, on October 10th, 2019, by Leo Varadkar and Boris Johnson.
"Do not blame Brussels for our own country's mistakes and do not be angry at us for telling you the truth. Be angry at the chancers who sold you a lie," he said.
When the prime minister was first informed, his response was: “You keep an eye on it. It will probably go away.”
The EU’s former Brexit chief negotiator Michel Barnier has said the resignation of Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader “opens a new page” in UK-EU relations.