Boris Johnson has hit out at mounting calls for a second referendum on European Union membership predicting it would arouse widespread 'anger'
Boris Johnson has hit out at mounting calls for a second referendum on European Union membership predicting it would arouse widespread "anger".
"I think that the anger in the population would be so intense and the tedium - people would be driven absolutely round the bend by the idea of having to vote on this thing again." Parliament has since rejected the deal and Mrs May is battling political turmoil ahead of the scheduled 29 March departure date. "We need to get this Brexit done properly and our prime minister now needs to punch a hole through that backstop and it has got to be a hole that is big enough to fit the entire United Kingdom," Mr Johnson told the India Today media group conference.
"My objection to the EU was not that it was run by foreigners. The problem is we don't really know who is running it," Johnson said, mocking the five presidents of the EU commission, council of ministers, parliament and other bodies.
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