Boris Johnson mocked over bizarre response to deal
Ex-PM Boris Johnson has been ridiculed after he hastily attempted to brand Keir Starmer’s new UK-EU deal a “total sell-out”.
The former Tory leader, who led the 2016 EU Leave campaign without a plan for Brexit, moaned the new deal went back on the promise to voters. It came as Mr Starmer unveiled a new UK-EU pact on Monday alongside the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at Lancaster House.
More than four years on from Mr Johnson’s botched trade agreement, Mr Starmer said the agreement was a “win-win” with benefits for shoppers, tourists and firms. He also insisted it was time to move on from the “stale old” political rows over Brexit.
But within minutes the ex-PM, who was reported in 2018 to have said “f*** business” amid rows over the UK’s exit from the EU, was quick with his hot take on X. He complained about the 12-year fishing agreement – despite agreeing to a deal on fishing with Brussels in 2020, which had been due to expire next year.
He posted: “Two-tier Keir is once again going back on his promise to the people of this country – by making us non-voting members of a two-tier European Union. Under this appalling sell out of a deal the UK will have to accept EU law on a host of measures from food standards to emissions trading. We will have to accept whatever changes the EU decides to make to those laws.”
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