Former British foreign minister Boris Johnson said that Prime Minister Theresa May is cheating the public with her plan for bringing the country out of the European Union.
Johnson told a fringe meeting of the Conservative Party’s annual conference in Birmingham on Tuesday that May’s plan for a Brexit deal, known as Chequers for the place it was announced in July, was a betrayal to the British voters who decided for their country in a 2016 referendum to leave the EU.
“This is the moment to chuck Chequers,” said Johnson, adding, “If we cheat the electorate, and Chequers is a cheat, we will escalate that sense of mistrust … If we get it wrong, if we bottle Brexit now, believe me, the people of this country will find it hard to forgive.”
Johnson has been a main critic of Chequers and even resigned from May’s cabinet when the plan was announced. The former mayor of London who was a key figure in the campaign for Brexit before the…