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Evening Standard comment: Fantasy that leaving the EU can be cheap

Like any serious Foreign Secretary, we’re sure that Boris Johnson chooses his words carefully. So when he was asked by a fellow Tory MP in parliament yesterday to make it “clear to the EU” that if they wanted a “penny piece more” from Britain as the price for leaving, they could “go whistle”, Mr Johnson must have known that his reply would have raised eyebrows. Our Foreign Secretary said his colleague was making a “very valid point” and that to “go whistle” was “an entirely appropriate” response to European demands for British money.