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Prime Minister Johnson
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In June 2018, almost exactly two years after the Brexit referendum, the British Foreign Secretary at the time appeared at the venerable Institute of Directors in London.
It was a confidential event, but a tape recording soon found its way to the public.
"Imagine if Donald Trump had to fight Brexit," said Boris Johnson.
The US president, whom he "increasingly admires", would go "damn hard" into the negotiations: "There would be countless breakdowns, a lot of chaos. Everyone would think he was crazy. But that would probably get you there . "
He is now convinced, says Johnson, "that there is a method behind Trump's madness."
On Monday of this week Boris Johnson, now Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, stood in the lower house of Parliament and delivered a speech that was, even by his standards, extremely confused and provocative.
Brussels, he rumbled, had "put a revolver on the table" in the negotiations for a trade agreement.
It is "proven" that "some in the EU" were planning a "blockade" in the Irish Sea to cut Northern Ireland from food deliveries and thus "cut up" the kingdom.
It was not more specific.
But: To prevent that, he presented a new law - it was a matter of self-defense.
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