Boris Johnson Slams Reform For ‘Not Doing A Bean’ For Brexit

Boris Johnson has hit out at Reform UK for consistently taking credit for getting Brexit over the line.

The former Conservative prime minister, who campaigned in the 2019 general election on the promise to “get Brexit done”, claimed Nigel Farage’s party did not do a “bean” towards actually securing our EU exit.

Both Johnson and Farage were part of the Leave movement in the run-up to and shortly after EU referendum in 2016, though on different campaigns – the then-Tory MP Johnson was in Vote Leave while Farage led Leave.EU.

Farage and his party Reform UK – formerly the Brexit Party – have consistently attacked Johnson’s legacy after migration soared once the UK left the EU.

Sky News presenter Trevor Phillips asked Johnson on Sunday: “Are you at all embarrassed by the way that Reform and others are using the term ‘Boriswave’?

“Because it is true that net migration, for better or worse, has been higher as a consequence of decisions you took than any time in our history.”

Johnson said Brexit gave the UK power to “control immigration”.

He continued: “We have the power under Brexit, and under Brexit, which I secured and which those people didn’t – they didn’t even exist!”

“They did not have a single MP,” he said, referring to Reform UK. “They did not do a bean to get Brexit through the House of Commons. Not a bean.

“ And they swank around claiming to have been responsible for it.

“They did, they did nothing to deliver Brexit.

“The hard Brexit I went through the House of Commons I want to move, enables us, enables this country not only to have as few people because we want overall, but also under our laws, to decide who comes from where.”

Reform UK spokesman hit back at that criticism, telling HuffPost UK: “Boris only had his majority because we put country before party in 2019.

“Boris then broke Britain so badly that the Conservatives haven’t led a single opinion poll since.”

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