Boris Johnson, London former Mayor who led the campaign to
take Britain out of the European Union, said “hysteria” had gripped those who
had supported staying in the block, and the government needed to explain the
truth about the impact of Brexit.
Boris Johnson, who shocked Britain
last week when he decided not to stand to replace outgoing Prime Minister David
Cameron, criticized the government on Monday for not having a positive plan to
make a British exit from the EU work.
“There is, among a section of the
population, a kind of hysteria, a contagious mourning of the kind that I
remember in 1997 after the death of (Diana) the Princess of Wales,” Johnson
wrote in the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
“It was wrong of the Government to
offer the public a binary choice on the EU without being willing in the event,
that people voted Leave to explain how this can be made to work in the
interests of the UK and Europe. We cannot wait until mid-September, and a new
PM.”
The flamboyant and popular Johnson,
one of the most prominent Brexit campaigners, had been expected to join the
contest to be the new Conservative leader after Cameron announced he would quit
following the referendum vote to leave the EU.
However, he pulled out when his
ally, Justice Secretary Michael Gove, decided to run for the job himself,
calling Johnson’s abilities into question, which Johnson’s supporters described
as an act of Machiavellian treachery.
A new leader is expected to be in
place by early September.
Johnson said fears about the impact
of leaving the EU had been wildly overdone, saying the stock market had not
collapsed and the emergency budget with spending cuts and tax rises had not
materialized as finance minister and Remain supporter George Osborne had
warned.
Conservative lawmaker Ben Wallace,
who was running Johnson’s campaign, said he thought Gove himself was unfit to
be the leader himself, calling him a gossip.
“Michael seems to have an emotional
need to gossip, particularly when drink is taken, as it all too often seemed to
be,” Wallace wrote in the Telegraph.
Johnson said fears about the impact of leaving the EU had
been wildly overdone, saying the stock market had not collapsed and the
emergency budget with spending cuts and tax rises had not materialized as
finance minister and Remain supporter George Osborne had warned.
Conservative lawmaker Ben Wallace, who was running
Johnson's campaign, said he thought Gove himself was unfit to be the leader
himself, calling him a gossip.
"Michael seems to have an emotional need to gossip,
particularly when drink is taken, as it all too often seemed to be,"
Wallace wrote in the Telegraph.
SOURCE: LoveWorld Plus News
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