UK PM candidate Johnson will demand EU talks free trade: Campaign chairman

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Boris Johnson will make an offer to the European Union over post-Brexit free trade but if it rejects that gambit then Britain will leave the bloc ...

LONDON: Boris Johnson will make an offer to the European Union over post-Brexit free trade but if it rejects that gambit then Britain will leave the bloc without a deal on Oct 31, the man in charge of his campaign to be prime minister said on Tuesday .

"With Boris, what he's actually said clearly is: 'We're not going to go back and renegotiate'," Johnson's campaign chairman, Iain Duncan Smith, told Sky News."What we're going to do is we will put a different offer down and say to them: 'Look - we want to get to free trade. Now we can either start talking about that now if you are serious and you want to have a process that means we don't end up ...

"But if all you are interested in doing is saying: 'All you can have is this deal', then the answer is: we will be prepared to leave on the 31st."

 

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