Johnson warns against 'bog-roll Brexit'

Britain's foreign minister Boris Johnson, who campaigned to leave the European Union, yesterday 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.