Boris Johnson: A lack of control over immigration has been ‘corrosive’ to our democracy. Johnson:

And what is certainly not a good is for politicians to stand up year after year and say ‘We can cut immigration to the tens of thousands’ when they know fine well that is legally impossible.

We have a city the size of Newcastle being added every year, with huge unfunded pressures on the NHS and on other public services.

He also stated he has no regrets over describing Barack Obama as a “part-Kenyan President” during a scathing attack on the American leader’s support for Britain to remain in the EU. Mr Johnson suggested the commander-in-chief had an “ancestral dislike” of Britain because of his family heritage.

hat-tip Stephen Neil