Boris Johnson faces backlash after Nazi remarks

Boris Johnson faced a furious political backlash after he compared European Union efforts to build a federal super state to Hitler’s plans to dominate the continent.

While the former London mayor acknowledged the EU was using “different methods” to the Nazis, Remain campaigners said his incendiary comparison to the Third Reich showed he was unfit for high office.

However pro-Brexit Tories said he was simply stating a “historical fact of life” about the failure of successive attempts over the centuries to establish a “greater Europe”.