Boris Johnson accuses Keir Starmer of telling 'bare-faced lies' after assembling a 'surrender squad' to reverse Brexit
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Boris Johnson today led a major backlash against Labour assembling a 'surrender squad' to reverse Brexit. The former prime minister, who won the 2019 election on a promise to 'get Brexit done', accused Sir Keir Starmer of preparing to betray that vote after it was revealed a Whitehall unit of 100 civil servants is being set up to work on negotiations with Brussels to achieve the PM's bid for a 'reset' of relations.
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Critics have warned it will amount to taking the EU back into the bloc by stealth if the UK gives up some of its hard-won freedoms. Lord Frost, Mr Johnson's former Brexit negotiator, told The Mail on Sunday that Labour was creating a 'surrender squad'.
![[Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, walks with European Council President Charles Michel, at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/15/20/93174219-14195471-image-a-42_1734294404006.jpg)
And writing in today's Mail, Mr Johnson accused Sir Keir of telling 'bare-faced lies' when he vowed not to take the UK back into the EU during the election campaign. Voters had given him the benefit of the doubt because he had been so 'po-faced, so prissily indignant about any challenge to his rectitude', Mr Johnson added.
He accused the PM of taking millions 'for fools' and said he had no mandate for such a move. Aligning with EU rules would amount to 'clicking our heels and bowing respectfully', the former PM warned. His powerful words were echoed by another ex Tory leader, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who accused Labour of 'selling out' to the EU.
Boris Johnson led a major backlash against Labour assembling a 'surrender squad' to reverse Brexit - he is pictured here at the Brexit trade deal signing in 2020. Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels.
