Britain will continue to have access to the European Union’s single market despite voting to leave, wrote Brexit campaigner and former London mayor Boris Johnson in a ‘Daily Telegraph’ article.
Mr Johnson claimed Britain could now forge a relationship with the EU based on free trade and partnership.
“There will continue to be free trade, and access to the single market,” Johnson said in the column, adding that Britain would also be able to do free trade deals with growth economies outside the EU.
Johnson avoided offering any details on the way the new arrangements would work, but suggested Britain would not accept free movement, saying the government would be able to implement an immigration policy that suited the needs of business and industry.
He said EU citizens in Britain would have their rights protected, as would British citizens living in the EU, while British people would still be able to go and work, live and travel in the EU.
Despite the EU leaders’ pressure on the UK to leave the EU s soon as possible, he also said there was “no great rush” for Britain to extricate itself from the EU.
Johnson claimed the negative impact of Brexit were being “wildly overdone” and that “the economy is in good hands,” praising Remain campaigners Mr Cameron and finance minister George Osborne for the work they had done to reduce public spending.

Source: ABC.net/au