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In 2014, Boris Johnson told @Simon_Nixon it was “vanishingly unlikely” that Britain would ever leave the EU, and implied that the threat of “walking away” was just a negotiating position.
Johnson, said that Britain needs to have a constructive and positive attitude to the EU, noting that it was Winston Churchill’s idea.
In 2013, Boris Johnson said he didn’t believe that Margaret Thatcher would want to leave the EU and thought she would ensure Britain stayed in the single market with a voice in the European Council.
Boris Johnson said that as Brussels correspondent for the Telegraph he had freedom to file whatever he wanted, and claims that an inflammatory article about Jacques Delors influenced the result of the Danish referendum on Maastricht.
This is the Boris Johnson article in question, headlined "Delors plan to rule Europe", which talks about foreign ministers being "stunned" and British officials being "appalled". 
Johnson says that while at the Telegraph, he became convinced you could have all the benefits of the EU without the political institutions. Brexit, and in particular the inability to come up with any alternative solution for the Irish border, proves that he was wrong.
