From a draft of a pro-EU newspaper column for The Daily Telegraph (written 19 February 2016), later reproduced in All Out War by Tim Shipman. Draft article published as "Cripes! I jolly nearly backed Dave on Europe" The Sunday Times (16 October 2016). Johnson submitted an anti-EU column for publication.
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