According to Boris Johnson, Britain needs to explain Brexit’s impact to its citizens, but wouldn’t explaining Brexit’s impact add to the “hysteria” and further boost demands for a second referendum.
Boris Johnson, the ex-London mayor who vigorously led a campaign designed to remove Britain from the European Union and later was a Prime Minister hopeful, has criticized the outgoing British Prime Minister David Cameron for not having a positive plan to take Britain out from EU.
Faced with increased “hysteria” and worsening economic and financial scenarios, voters who once supported Britain’s exit from the European Union, are apprehensive over the impact that their vote has had.
Johnson said the government needs to explain the impact of Brexit to its citizens.
“There is, among a section of the population, a kind of hysteria, a contagious mourning of the kind that I remember in 1997 after the death of (Diana) the Princess of Wales,” wrote Johnson in the Daily Telegraph newspaper. “It was wrong of the Government to offer the public a binary choice on the EU without being willing – in the event that people voted Leave – to explain how this can be made to work in the interests of the UK and Europe. We cannot wait until mid-September, and a new PM.”
Despite being popular and flamboyant, Johnson, a very prominent Brexit campaigner who was expected to join the contest for the new conservative leader, in the wake of Cameron’s announcement of stepping down, pulled out from the race since he did not enjoy the backing of Justice Secretary Michael Gove, who surprisingly decided to run for the job himself.
Justice Secretary Michael Gove has questioned Johnson’s abilities while Johnson’s supporters described Justice Secretary Michael Gove act, as an act of Machiavellian treachery.
As per Ben Wallace, a conservative lawmaker who was earlier running Johnson’s campaign, Gove is unfit to be a leader and called him a gossip.
“Michael seems to have an emotional need to gossip, particularly when drink is taken, as it all too often seemed to be,” wrote Wallace in the Telegraph.
The conservative party is set to announce a new leader by late August or early September.
According to Johnson, the fears of Brexit has been largely overdone since the stock market has not yet crumbled nor has the emergency budget, which will bring about spending cuts and hike in taxes, materialised, as George Osborne, Britain’s finance minister had warned.
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