RE: This is over31 Dec 2020 16:39
In his 2001 book ‘Friends, Voters, Countrymen’, written while he was trying to win a seat in the Commons for the first time, Mr Johnson wrote that Britain’s interests were “still on balance served by maintaining our membership” and said withdrawal would mean “a worrying loss of influence”.
In 2003, he told the House of Commons: “I am not by any means an ultra-Eurosceptic. In some ways, I am a bit of a fan of the European Union. If we did not have one, we would invent something like it.”