Boris Johnson has compared the Ukrainian people's fight for freedom to British people voting for Brexit.
During the Conservative Party spring conference in Blackpool, the Prime Minister described Vladimir Putin's invasion as a "turning point for the world" and a choice between "freedom and oppression". Comparing it to the referendum to leave the European Union and the Covid-19 vaccination drive, he said that Brits “choose freedom every time”.
Mr Johnson said: “It’s a moment of choice. It’s a choice between freedom and oppression. I know there are some around the world, even in some western governments… who say that we’re better off making accommodations with tyranny. I believe they are profoundly wrong and to try to renormalise relations with Putin after this, as we did in 2014, would be to make exactly the same mistake.”
