٠٠:٠٣:٢٥UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the Brexit agreement was resolving "a question that has bedevilled our politics for decades" during a press conference in London on Thursday.
"I think that the UK's own relationship with it [the EU] was always difficult. We always found some of the language about ever closer union, the idea of this political union, this very dense idea of this ideology of endless integration. We found quite hard," said Johnson said, before adding that the UK will continue to be a supporter of the European Union in a strategic way.
"I think the very dense program of integration wasn't right for the UK, and that's why it was right to take back control in the way that we have. And I think that this deal expresses what the people of the country voted for in 2016. And I think there was a wisdom in what they decided," said Johnson.
The agreement on post-Brexit relations still requires approval from the 27 remaining EU states, as well as the UK parliament, and will then be applied on a provisional basis from January 1 2021.
UK: EU deal resolves 'question that has bedevilled our politics for decades' - Johnson
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the Brexit agreement was resolving "a question that has bedevilled our politics for decades" during a press conference in London on Thursday.
"I think that the UK's own relationship with it [the EU] was always difficult. We always found some of the language about ever closer union, the idea of this political union, this very dense idea of this ideology of endless integration. We found quite hard," said Johnson said, before adding that the UK will continue to be a supporter of the European Union in a strategic way.
"I think the very dense program of integration wasn't right for the UK, and that's why it was right to take back control in the way that we have. And I think that this deal expresses what the people of the country voted for in 2016. And I think there was a wisdom in what they decided," said Johnson.
The agreement on post-Brexit relations still requires approval from the 27 remaining EU states, as well as the UK parliament, and will then be applied on a provisional basis from January 1 2021.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the Brexit agreement was resolving "a question that has bedevilled our politics for decades" during a press conference in London on Thursday.
"I think that the UK's own relationship with it [the EU] was always difficult. We always found some of the language about ever closer union, the idea of this political union, this very dense idea of this ideology of endless integration. We found quite hard," said Johnson said, before adding that the UK will continue to be a supporter of the European Union in a strategic way.
"I think the very dense program of integration wasn't right for the UK, and that's why it was right to take back control in the way that we have. And I think that this deal expresses what the people of the country voted for in 2016. And I think there was a wisdom in what they decided," said Johnson.
The agreement on post-Brexit relations still requires approval from the 27 remaining EU states, as well as the UK parliament, and will then be applied on a provisional basis from January 1 2021.