The former Foreign Secretary received 126 votes from Tory MPs in the second round of voting yesterday and is highly likely to reach the last two. The final result will be decided by Tory Party members, a group in which Mr Johnson’s approval rating is very high. After the BBC Tory leadership debate last night, Mr Johnson’s odds are 1/7 to be the next Tory leader, compared to 12/1 for Jeremy Hunt and 16/1 for Rory Stewart.
The former London Mayor has promised to take the UK out of the EU by October 31 – deal or no deal – if he becomes Prime Minister.
However, he first made his name as a Eurosceptic back when he was Brussels correspondent for the Telegraph between 1989 and 1994.
During this time, he regularly savaged Mr Delors, the mastermind behind the Maastricht Treaty which cemented further European integration.
One particular article sparked huge debate in Denmark that threw a spanner in the works for Mr Delors.
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Boris Johnson wrote many disparaging articles about Jacques Delors (Image: GETTY)
Mr Johnson was in the BBC debate last night with Jeremy Hunt and the other candidates (Image: GETTY)
The headline was ‘Delors plans to rule Europe’ and in the article Mr Johnson accused the EU boss of planning to create a European President and centralise more power to Brussels once the Maastricht treaty had been ratified.
In a 2003 article, Mr
