Factbox: Die-hard eurosceptic or opportunist? Boris Johnson's views on the EU

LONDON - Boris Johnson, the front-runner to be Britain’s next prime minister, was the face of the official campaign to leave the European Union. But he has made contradictory statements in the past about the relationship he wants Britain to have with the world’s largest trading bloc.

* When asked what animal the EU would be: “The EU would be a lobster ... because the EU, by the very way it works, encourages its participating members to order the lobster at the joint meal because they know that the bill is going to be settled by everybody else - normally by the Germans,” Johnson told the Daily Telegraph in 2014.

* On why he eventually supported leaving the EU during the referendum: “We are seeing a slow and invisible process of legal colonization, as the EU infiltrates just about every area of public policy,” Johnson wrote in his Daily Telegraph column in February 2016. * On how the EU has created the longest period of peace since the Roman era: “The European Community, now Union, has helped to deliver a period of peace and prosperity for its people as long as any since the days of the Antonine emperors,” he said in his biography of Winston Churchill “The Churchill Factor” published in 2014.

* On why he was reluctantly supporting May’s Brexit deal: “We have a choice to make now, and that means choosing between options that actually exist,” Johnson said on Twitter in March. “It is very painful to vote for this deal. But I hope we can now work together to remedy its defects.”

That's clearly an 'opportunistic attitude', in my view !😉 Brexit BrexitParty 11Jun

The architect of all the Brexit issues now attempts to appear as the saviour

False dilemma fallacy... He can be both.

Johnson can't even keep his income straight and they want to let the clown run a country, nobody else would be that stupid, …. no wait.

You left out the word 'Liar' in your headline!

Selfservative clown!

I'm going to kill myself, please, I have debt, I can't pay the bank please help me please you are my hope please help me for god's sake I will always pray to you I'm so desperate please don't turn me down help me beautiful human I've been trying to reach you for months please

Boris can pull this of and carry out the true result of the referendum leave with a clean break

Real MacKenzie bezos help me please They wanted money for Mackenzie Bezos. Correspondence is very professional

Huckster; a seller of shoddy goods.

cheats on wife lies to uk public Brexit hides money from tax man he just uk court jester clown man

Former remainer, switched over to leave. Likely to switch sides again if it advances his political career.

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