No one needs an introduction to the traditional idiom that 'You can't have your cake and eat it too'. There are many variations of the age-old idiom but all of them mean that you need to make some sacrifice to get something in exchange. You cannot simultaneously possess two mutually exclusive things, and you have to choose one of the other. But Boris Johnson, long before he became the UK PM, made it clear that he did not believe in it. His policy is to have to the cake and then to eat it.
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