In his article for the Telegraph in March 2016, Mr Johnson claimed that while the EU denied it was attempting to create a “superstate”, its persistent push for increased integration translated to a system whereby Europe is ruled by ‘Five Presidents’. Referring to the European Council, Commission, Parliament Central Bank and a body called the European Stability Mechanism, Mr Johnson warned the EU wanted to create an “all-out economic Government of Europe.”

Mr Johnson added: “They want a euro-area treasury, with further pooling of tax and budgetary policy. They want to harmonise insolvency law, company law, property rights, social security systems – and there is no way the UK can be unaffected by this process.

“So even though Britain is out of the euro, there is nothing we can do to stop our friends from using ‘single market’ legislation to push forward centralising measures that will help prop up the euro (or so they imagine), by aligning EU economic, social and fiscal policies.”

Then Mayor of London, Mr Johnson argued the EU had evolved from its purely economic influence into a over-politicised body, leading to influence in countries’ internal affairs.

He added: “We will find ourselves dragged along willy-nilly, in spite of all protestations to the contrary.

“So-called ‘Single Market’ measures affect us as much as they affect the eurozone – and the question therefore is what we mean by ‘Single Market’.

“The answer is a mystery – because the single market has changed beyond recognition.”

Boris Johnson was a prominent campaigner in the Leave campaign in the build up to the 2016 EU referendum, which famously saw British voters decide to leave the EU.

He hasn’t always held Eurosceptic views however.

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In 2003, he said: “I am not by any means an ultra-Eurosceptic. In some ways, I am a bit of a fan of the European Union. If we did not have one, we would invent something like it.”

It is also famously rumoured that he wrote two columns leading up to the 2016 referendum, one backing Leave which was published, and one backing Remain which wasn’t.

In Tim Shipman’s 2017 book ‘All Out War’, details of the Remain article suggest that Mr Johnson had claimed “Britain is a great nation, a global force for good. It is surely a boon for the world and for Europe that she should be ­intimately engaged in the EU.”

Having determinedly backed Brexit since the 2016 vote, Mr Johnson secured a massive majority in the general election earlier this month, and looks to have taken a huge step to finally delivering Brexit.

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