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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.”
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He continued: "I know that it's the instinct of the people of this country, like the people of Ukraine, to choose freedom every time. I can give you a couple of famous recent examples; when the British people voted for Brexit in such large numbers, I don't believe they were remotely hostile to foreigners, it's because they wanted to be free."
Also during his speech, Mr Johnson claimed that Mr Putin "was frightened" of Ukraine and that the brutal invasion of his neighbour was motivated by the fear a successful Ukraine would trigger a pro-democracy revolution in Moscow.
He added that Mr Putin was in a “total panic” about the prospect of a popular uprising if freedom was allowed to flourish in Kyiv.
Mr Johnson told the conference: “I think he was frightened of Ukraine for an entirely different reason. He was
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