London — British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been caught on tape predicting a "meltdown" in Brexit talks and musing admiringly how US President Donald Trump might handle them. In his latest indiscreet remarks likely to embarrass Prime Minister Theresa May, Johnson said the government was reaching a phase in negotiations "where we are much more combative with Brussels". "You’ve got to face the fact there may now be a meltdown. Okay?" he told Conservative activists earlier this week, according to a secret recording leaked to BuzzFeed News. "I don’t want anybody to panic during the meltdown. No panic. Pro bono publico, no bloody panic. It’s going to be all right in the end." He said, according to further quotes revealed in The Times: "Take the fight to the enemy — absolutely right. We need to — and we will." Johnson, Britain’s chief diplomat, also said he was "increasingly admiring of Donald Trump". "I have become more and more convinced that there is method in his madness," he...
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