Boris Johnson today faced a veiled call to resign from within his own party, after giving an incendiary interview to a national newspaper in which he called Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposed “customs partnership” with the European Union after Brexit “crazy”. “If you have the new customs partnership, you have a crazy system whereby you end up collecting the tariffs on behalf of the EU at the U.K. frontier,” Johnson told the Mail. He added: “It’s totally untried and would make it very, very difficult to do free trade deals.”

Johnson’s comments are privately backed by other senior Brexiteers in May’s Cabinet, including the Brexit secretary David Davis and the Environment Secretary Michael Gove. First, the compromise was forced at the negotiating table in Brussels rather than being the government’s policy and second, it took six months to breach Johnson’s red line — enough time for most people to have forgotten about it.
Theresa May confirms her trust in Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson after he called her post-Brexit trade policy with the European Union "crazy".