Boris Johnson urges people to reject PM’s ‘national humiliation’ Brexit

Bangla Sanglap Desk: Boris Johnson has urged MPs (again) to reject the Brexit deal on the table which risks keeping the UK in ‘permanent captivity’. He was heckled by fellow Tory MPs as he warned others about trying to leave. Divisions among the Tory benches were laid bare as the former foreign secretary urged colleagues to reject Theresa May’s Brexit deal and claimed Brussels ‘think they’ve got us beat’. He also outlined ideas which included renegotiating with the EU and removing the Irish border backstop.
Mr Johnson said he could not believe there is a single MP who ‘sincerely believes this deal before us is a good deal’ – which prompted a Tory colleague to note ‘actually there are a lot’. Sir Roger Gale later demanded Mr Johnson reveal what his ‘big idea’ was after he labelled Mrs May’s solution a ‘pseudo Brexit’. Speaking in the Commons, Mr Johnson said: ‘The Government’s heart has not appeared to be in this deal and I think listening to those who are sent out to defend it and to explain it, they know it is a democratic disaster.’ He added: ‘It has brought us together – Remainers and Leavers, myself and Tony Blair, the whole Johnson family is united in the belief that this is, I’m afraid, a national humiliation that makes a mockery of Brexit.’
Mr Johnson claimed the UK would be permanently trapped in the Irish border backstop because the EU had ‘no reason to take its foot off our neck’. He added: ‘They will keep us in permanent captivity as a memento mori, as a reminder to the world of what happens to all those who try to leave the EU. ‘This is a recipe for blackmail and it’s open to any member of the EU to name its price for Britain’s right to leave the backstop. ‘The Spanish will make a play for Gibraltar, the French will go for our fish and our bankers, the Germans may well want some concessions on the free movement of EU nationals and so it goes on.’