Mr Johnson, a prominent Brexiteer, is the frontrunner in the upcoming Tory leadership election, after Prime Minister Theresa May announced her resignation on Friday. The former Foreign Secretary has called for the UK to leave the EU on October 11, with or without a deal. In his 2014 book ‘The Churchill Factor’ Mr Johnson explored the wartime Prime Minister’s relationship with Europe and how the EU could have turned out differently.
In the book Mr Johnson explained how Churchill criticised the Clement Attlee-run Labour Government for refusing an invitation to discuss a European precursor to the EU.
The Schuman Plan was a proposal by the French foreign minister Robert Schuman in 1950 to create a single authority to control for the production of steel and coal in Europe.
Churchill felt that the UK should be at the table, because without the UK’s influence the bloc could end up a “disaster”.
Mr Johnson wrote: “If Britain fails to engage, Churchill warns, then there is a risk that the European bloc will become a neutral force, equidistant between Moscow and Washington; and that, he believes, would be a disaster.”
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Not only this, but by the refusing the invite
