What the papers say: Boris has been rumbled

Boris Johnson painted Brexit as a source of ‘hope not fear’ in his speech yesterday. The Foreign Secretary said that Britain’s departure from the EU was not a ‘great V-sign from the cliffs of Dover’. ‘That’s how you do it!,’ says the Sun in its editorial in which it urges other members of the Cabinet to follow Boris’s lead. His barnstorming speech ‘laid out the exciting case for a truly global Britain’ and was the same ‘vision’ which persuaded 17.4million Brits to back Brexit in the first place. ‘Too often’ other Ministers ‘treat our exit like a problem to be managed rather than an opportunity to be seized’. Philip Hammond – who the paper calls ‘Treasury Tin-Ears – is a prime example and needs to take a leaf out of Boris’s book and ‘glitz up his spreadsheets’, the paper says. After all, ‘there is plenty of good news for him, and the rest of the Cabinet, to shout about’.