Because we live in an eternal Brexit hellscape, Boris Johnson is on the airwaves talking about leaving the EU. Again.

With 46 days to go, the mop-headed millionaire – who in 2017 said "there is no plan for no deal, because we’re going to get a great deal" –  is still insisting everything will be fine.

The ex-Foreign Secretary has proclaimed a "forest" of trade tariffs simply won’t appear, even though there’s no agreement.

But the his explanation of why isn’t very reassuring.

He says we’ll be fine because the UK and EU "are run by responsible human beings".

That’s the same Boris Johnson who, shortly before becoming the UK’s Foreign Secretary and chief diplomat, compared the EU to Hitler.

It’s also the same Boris Johnson who got stuck on a zipwire, called black people "piccaninnies", rugby tackled a 10-year-old boy on a business trip, accused the President of Turkey of defiling a goat, called Barack Obama "part-Kenyan", said a Libyan city would be great once they "clear the dead bodies away", and boasted about whisky tariffs at a Sikh Temple.

The eye-popping excuse came today as he was questioned by BBC Radio 4 about 36% tariffs on dairy products if the UK switches to "default" World Trade Organisation rules.

He replied: "It’s incredibly important to realise that the UK and the EU are run by responsible human beings who want the best for their citizens the best for their businesses.

"I really don’t think it reasonable to suppose that on April 1 they will decide collectively that they’re going to allow a great forest, palisade of tariffs to spring up."

He also tried to play down claims by fellow Brexiteer David Davis that the pound’s value could drop 20% and that might be a good thing.

"Sometimes you can have very significant falls in the value of the pound without that being passed on in the form of inflation," Mr Johnson claimed.

The blustering Brexiteer claimed foreign countries were looking at Britain and saying "wow" about its decision to leave.

He rebuffed EU chief Donald Tusk’s claim that there was a "special place in hell" for Brexiteers without a plan.

"There is a plan and there it is – it’s to go ahead – and indeed the plan has been pretty much the same for months if not years," he claimed.

And he claimed that even with no deal, the UK could strike a "standstill arrangement" lasting three years in which it continues to pay the EU and gets tariff-free trade in return.

But for all the Brexiteer bluster Mr Johnson did also show signs of compromise as Theresa May bids to renegotiate the 585-page Brexit deal.

He said he would be content for the "backstop" – a clause that would trap us under EU customs rules in exchange for keeping the Irish border open – to be modified rather than removed.

"Some of the ideas that the prime minister has mentioned in the House do seem sensible," he said,

"I think you would need a time limit."

"I think I would want to look very carefully at what was being proposed and it would have to give the United Kingdom a UK-sized exit from the backstop."

He also backed the "exciting" plan called the Malthouse Compromise which suggests as-yet-unknown technological solutions for the Irish border.

Finally Mr Johnson was quizzed on claims Jacob Rees Mogg, the Tory Brexiteer, is holding secret talks at his Westminster mansion about installing him in power.

Stuttering, he did not deny the claims, saying: "I have many friends in the House of Commons and Jacob is certainly one of them.

"But what everybody wants to do… is get ahead with a programme, an idea that brings our party together."

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