(CNN) – Stanley Johnson, the father of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, said he had the intention of obtaining French citizenship. His comments were read in advance of the final transition of the United Kingdom to the European Union.
Johnson, a member of the European Parliament, told the French radio station RTL that “it will always be European” in an interview broadcasting the Jew.
«No French vole was treated. If it is well understood, soy francs », says RTL in French, distancing the angle of his family with the country.
“My mother was born in France, her mother was completely French at the time she was born. Entones para mí es une cuestión de recuperar lo que ya tengo », dijo sober la decisión de converti en ciudadano francés “For this reason, I am very happy.”
Great Britain officially abandons the single market and the future union of the EU when the transition period ends at 23:00 GMT (18:00 ET) in the year of Año Nuevo.
The posterior commercial agreement on Brexit between the EU and the United Kingdom is currently in force, despite the fact that both parties agree on a final timetable. For the majority of Britons will commence in 2021, losing their ability to work and travel freely across the block of 27 nations.
Stanley Johnson urges that Brexit does not mark the end of European identity for it or for the English. “It’s always European, so it’s safe. You can tell the English: ‘No eres europeo’ », dijo Johnson en RTL.
“Europe is always more than the common market, it is more than the European Union”, added. “But this is, yes, having this angle with the European Union is important”.
The Prime Minister’s father met with frequency in the headlines since his commencement of the cargo period. In July, it was criticized for traveling to Greece while the United Kingdom was in confinement. And in December, the night before his son won a suffrage election, Stanley Johnson was accused of making an Islamophobic comment on television.