London — British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson wrote an article urging that Britain stay in the EU, days before becoming the chief campaigner for Brexit, the Sunday Times newspaper reported. In the previously unseen column, published for the first time on Sunday, Johnson asserted that remaining in the European Union would be "a boon for the world and for Europe". He warned that Brexit could lead to "economic shock" and the breakup of the union between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom, in the text revealed in a new book by the newspaper’s political editor Tim Shipman, entitled "All Out War". Then there is "the Putin factor", Johnson wrote, adding: "we don’t want to do anything to encourage more shirtless swaggering from the Russian leader, not in the Middle East, not anywhere." "There are some big questions that the ‘out’ side need to answer," he wrote. The Sunday Times said he wrote the piece "as a way of clarifying his thoughts", before composing a final article arguin...
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