Chris Patton, the last governor of Hong Kong and former European commissioner, said Boris Johnson was not an orthodox but an English nationalist. Tory Lord Patton feared in December that the UK would eventually leave the EU without a deal. “Only God knows how this will end,” he sighed at the time. Former Conservative Prime Minister John Major, who spoke violently against Brexit, warned in 2016 that the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union would destabilize Northern Ireland and jeopardize the government’s Good Friday deal. Blair in 1998. The Economist Boris Johnson recently concluded that he was not very interested in the question of the Irish border, because he thought that sooner or later the Irish reorganization would take place. It is true that Brexit began the discussion of a united Ireland (56% of Northern Ireland’s voters voted to remain in the European Union). Sinn Fൻin opposes the unification of Ireland if it is a popular will.