Boris Johnson warns against 'bog-roll Brexit'

LONDON, June 23 (AFP) - Britain's foreign minister Boris Johnson, who campaigned to leave the European Union, on Saturday warned Prime Minister Theresa May against a Brexit that was “soft, yielding and seemingly infinitely long” like toilet roll.

Writing in The Sun on the second anniversary of the historic vote, Johnson urged against a “bog- roll Brexit”, British slang for toilet roll, and called on his boss to “fulfil the mandate of the people and deliver a full British Brexit”.

May's team is about to enter into the next round of negotiations with EU counterparts, but is still to define exactly what it wants from Britain's future relationship with the continent, particularly in the area of customs regulation.

Anti- Brexit campaign- ers were due to mark the anniversary later Saturday with a demons t r ation in London demanding a “people's vote” on whether to approve the final deal May strikes with the EU, if an agreement is struck at all.

Trade minister Liam Fox, an arch eurosceptic, insisted that the prime minister was still prepared to walk away from the talks if no satisfactory deal was reached.