BORIS JOHNSON: I call on everyone who cares about democracy - and the economic salvation of this country - to fight, fight and fight again for the freedoms the people voted for in 2016, and which they believed were secure
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There are plenty of reasons to be appalled by the news that Keir Starmer is about to break his word to the people, and take this country back into the clammy grip of the EU. There is the sheer duplicity of the man, the bare-faced lies he told us all at the time of the election in July.
![[The PM at an anti-Brexit rally with Camden Council leader Georgia Gould in 2019]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/15/17/93169091-14195035-image-a-14_1734282685299.jpg)
He said that he was going to respect the voters, and that there would be no going back on the Brexit referendum. He was categorical about what this meant: no going back into the single market or customs union, and no return to free movement for nationals from the EU.
![[With European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in October]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/15/17/93169085-14195035-With_European_Commission_president_Ursula_von_der_Leyen_in_Octob-a-45_1734283102913.jpg)
Perhaps we were mad to believe him. Perhaps we should have recalled the dozens of times he tried to stop Brexit in parliament, or demanded a second referendum. Perhaps we should have denounced him last July, and said he was lying just to get elected. But somehow he seemed so po-faced, so prissily indignant about any challenge to his rectitude, that we gave him the benefit of the doubt.
European Council president Antonio Costa and Keir Starmer meeting at No10 this week. Millions of people went to the polls honestly believing that Brexit was safe under Labour. It is clear that Starmer was taking them for fools. As The Mail on Sunday has revealed, he has set up a giant negotiating team in the Cabinet Office – bigger than the team of civil servants who originally delivered Brexit. Their mission is plain: to haul us slowly back into the orbit of the EU – to the point where Britain is effectively a colony, a vassal state, the orange-ball-chewing gimp of Brussels.
