Britain will continue to
have access to the European Union's single market despite voting to leave the
bloc, leading Brexit campaigner and favorite to become the country's next Prime
Minister, Boris Johnson said in a newspaper article on Sunday.
Johnson said Britain could
now forge a relationship with the EU based on free trade and partnership rather
than a federal system, and that Britain would also be able to do free trade
deals with growth economies outside the EU.
"There will continue to
be free trade, and access to the single market," Johnson wrote in a
regular column for the Daily Telegraph newspaper, adding that there was
"no great rush" for Britain to extricate itself from the EU.
Johnson said Bank of England
governor Mark Carney, who came under fire from some Brexit campaigners ahead of
the referendum for flagging the risks of leaving the bloc, should continue in
his job.
"The economy is in good
hands," he said. "Most sensible people can see that Bank of England
governor Mark Carney has done a superb job – and now that the referendum is over,
he will be able to continue his work without being in the political
firing-line."
He also said he did not
detect "any real appetite" for another Scottish independence
referendum, despite the country's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying it was
highly likely if it is the best option to keep Scotland in the bloc.
Scotland, a nation of five
million people, voted to stay in the EU by 62 to 38 percent in Thursday's
referendum, putting it at odds with the United Kingdom as a whole, which voted
by 52 to 48 percent in favor of an exit from the bloc, or Brexit.
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