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Boris Johnson: EU ‘red card’ is not enough

Downing Street is doing its best to spin national parliament’s right to use a ‘red card’ against EU laws – apparently won as part of the PM’s renegotiation with Donald Tusk – as a victory. But others are less impressed. David Cameron’s old friend Boris Johnson has been on LBC this morning talking about the EU renegotiation package. The London mayor, no stranger to being a thorn in the PM’s side, tried hard to appear convincing in backing Cameron.

He said:

‘David Cameron has done a very good job at huge speed of getting a difficult package of measures.’


But Boris went on to say that what was on the table so far was not enough – and that more needed to be done.

Speaking to LBC’s Nick Ferrari, he added:

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