Boris Johnson's demise was 'due to Brexit,' says Rees-Mogg
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Controversial Australians voted to host the referendum despite mixed messages "I have always been a Brexit supporter," said Nigel Farage of The Former Australian Prime Minister, who insisted he always supported Brexit despite supporting Remain in the run-up to the referendum.
In 2016, Abbott wrote a column in The Times:
But a few months later, Abbott said, "I am quietly thrilled that the British people have decided to take back their country."
Abbott, speaking to Farage on GB News, said: "So in a way, he was a winner anyway!"
Mr. Farage then said Mr. Cameron "wasn't forced into it, but it was a bystander." After reminding him, I asked the guest:
Mr. Abbott replied hesitantly that the subject was "a bit of a sticky point actually."
"Emotionally, I was always pro-Brexit, so I ended up writing an article in the Times, so I didn't know what the Times was going to do." I can't remember if I made the headline, but mine was ``Brexit supporters support Remain''. Pound's Brexit betrayal over deal 'breach'
Boris Before Johnson appointed Mr Abbott as official UK trade adviser in 2020, the former Australian prime minister wrote an article in The Spectator arguing for a no-deal Brexit.
He wrote: "As the former prime minister of a country with a fully satisfactory 'no deal' relationship with the EU, let me assure you: there is no deal. It doesn't matter.”
Abbott's appointment was met with a number of criticisms, including Shadow International Trade Secretary Emily Thornberry.
Thornberry said: , this is not what I think Britain is on the world stage.
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"And secondly, The fact that he has no experience in in-depth trade negotiations, no understanding of Brexit, no belief in climate change, no concern for change, workers' rights, and a sense of guilt over the disappearance of the Australian auto industry. No means, in my opinion, that he is not qualified for this role.'[132] increase.
In concluding talks with Farage, Mr. Abbott sought to justify his "Brexit supporters' Remain support."
He said: "What I said then was not that England needed Europe, but that Europe needed England.
Follow the English way, not the Brussels way."
