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Having decided at the last minute to back the 'Leave' campaign, foreign secretary Johnson now calls for a 'liberal' Brexit (Photo: UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

Conservative 'buccaneering Brexit' narrative unrealistic

Conservative politicians are frantically trying to forge a hopeful narrative out of Brexit.

Foreign secretary Boris Johnson recently set out his vision of a 'liberal Brexit', backbench MP and chief Brexit 'hardliner'Jacob Rees-Mogg has previously called for a 'bold Brexit' and Liam Fox, the international trade minister, has described a 'Buccaneering Britain' cutting trade deals across the post-B...

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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.

Having decided at the last minute to back the 'Leave' campaign, foreign secretary Johnson now calls for a 'liberal' Brexit (Photo: UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

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Matthew is EUobserver's Opinion Editor. He joined EUobserver in June 2018. Previously he worked as a reporter for The Guardian in London, and as editor for AFP in Paris and DPA in Berlin.

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