Brexitwatch: what Boris Johnson really thinks about the EU

A few days before his desertion to the Brexit camp, Boris Johnson said it would be madness to leave the EU because it would mean 'embroiling the Government for several years in a fiddly process of negotiating new arrangements, so diverting energy from the real problems of this country – low skills, low social mobility, low investment etc – that have nothing to do with Europe.'

Then, of course, he discovered backing Brexit might help him become Prime Minister.