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#Brexit - PM candidate Johnson will demand EU talks free trade - campaign chairman
Boris Johnson (pictured) will make an offer to the European Union over post-Brexit free trade but if it rejects that gambit then Britain will leave the bloc without a deal on 31 October, the man in charge of his campaign to be prime minister said on Tuesday (2 July), writes Guy Faulconbridge.
“With Boris, what he’s actually said clearly is: ‘We’re not going to go back and renegotiate’,” Johnson’s campaign chairman, Iain Duncan Smith, told Sky News.
“What we’re going to do is we will put a different offer down and say to them: ‘Look - we want to get to free trade. Now we can either start talking about that now if you are serious and you want to have a process that means we don’t end up...with tariffs etcetera after 31 October - if that’s what you want, the EU, then we are prepared to talk,” Duncan Smith said.
“But if all you are interested in doing is saying: ‘All you can have is this deal’, then the answer is: we will be prepared to leave on the 31st.”
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