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Johnson pledges EU co-operation after referendum result Brexit: Boris Johnson - 'time to build bridges with Remain voters'
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Boris Johnson says the UK will continue to "intensify" co-operation with the EU following the country's vote to leave. Brexit voters must "build bridges" with Remain supporters who feel "loss and confusion", Boris Johnson says.
The leading pro-Leave campaigner said exit supporters must accept the 52-48 result was "not entirely overwhelming". The leading pro-Leave campaigner and Tory leader frontrunner said the 52-48 result was "not entirely overwhelming".
Writing in Monday's Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson dismissed Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's call for a second independence referendum saying there was little "appetite" for one. Setting out his post referendum vision in the Daily Telegraph, he said the UK could reform its immigration system and keep access to the single market.
It came as Jeremy Corbyn said he would stand in any Labour leadership contest. But ex-chancellor Alistair Darling accused him of treating the situation "like a big game".
Eleven members of the shadow front bench resigned on Sunday following the sacking of shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who told Mr Corbyn he had lost confidence in him. Thursday's EU referendum, which has triggered a Conservative leadership contest and mass resignations from Labour's front bench, followed a bitter four-month campaign with recriminations continuing over the weekend.
In his first words since accepting the result of the EU referendum on Friday, Mr Johnson wrote that "the only change" would be to free the UK from the EU's "extraordinary and opaque" law, which "will not come in any great rush". "We who are part of this narrow majority must do everything we can to reassure the Remainers," wrote Mr Johnson, who has kept a low profile since the result was announced.
'Single market access' "We must reach out, we must heal, we must build bridges - because it is clear that some have feelings of dismay, and of loss, and confusion."
His column said: "I cannot stress too much that Britain is part of Europe, and always will be. He said there would still be "intense" cooperation between the UK and the EU on arts, science and the environment and said Britons would still be able to travel and work in Europe.
"There will still be intense and intensifying European co-operation and partnership in a huge number of fields: the arts, the sciences, the universities, and on improving the environment.
"EU citizens living in this country will have their rights fully protected, and the same goes for British citizens living in the EU.
"British people will still be able to go and work in the EU; to live; to travel; to study; to buy homes and to settle down. As the German equivalent of the CBI - the BDI - has very sensibly reminded us, there will continue to be free trade, and access to the single market.
"The only change - and it will not come in any great rush - is that the UK will extricate itself from the EU's extraordinary and opaque system of legislation: the vast and growing corpus of law enacted by a European Court of Justice from which there can be no appeal."
In other developments:In other developments:
Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday that he would step down as PM by the autumn after losing the vote for Britain to remain within the EU. Mr Johnson said Britain would always be "part of Europe" and "there will continue to be free trade, and access to the single market".
Mr Johnson, MP for Uxbridge and the leading pro-Brexit campaigner, is among those tipped to succeed him. Speaking outside his home on Monday morning, he said the status of EU nationals living in the UK and Britons abroad would be protected under what he called a "fair, impartial and humane" immigration system.
Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty, which sets a two-year deadline on the UK's formal exit from the EU, has not yet been triggered by the British government. He said "project fear" - the term he has repeatedly used to attack the Remain campaign - was "over" after Chancellor George Osborne indicated there would be no immediate emergency Budget.
EU foreign ministers have previously urged Britain to start the process soon. Europe's Brexit crisis - the week ahead
Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday that he would step down by the autumn after losing the vote for Britain to remain within the EU.
The PM said responsibility for triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty, which sets a two-year deadline on the UK's formal exit from the EU, would fall to his successor.
'Run away'
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Darling, who campaigned for Remain, said he was more worried about the UK economy now than in 2008 during the financial crisis because there were "so many uncertainties, so many unknowns".
He said there did not seem to be a plan for what to do, and warned of a "vacuum" between now and October, when the next Conservative leader is expected to be appointed.
Mr Darling said: "We got no government, we have got no opposition, the people who got us into this mess have run away - they have gone to ground."
But Commons leader and Leave campaigner Chris Grayling said preparations would be needed for the coming months.
"We've clearly got to take things forward, we cannot sit on our hands for the next four months, that goes without saying and we'll be setting out more of that in due course," he said.
Asked whether the UK could concede some freedom of movement in exchange for access to the single market, he said last week's vote was a clear mandate for the government to put controls over immigration, and that it "had to happen".
EU politicians have urged Britain to start the Article 50 process soon.
Michael Fuchs, who is vice chair of German Chancellor Angela's Merkel's CDU party, said it would not be possible for the UK to retain access to the single market without free movement.
"Either you are in a club or you are out of a club," he told Today.
"If you are in a club you have to follow the rules. If you are out of the club, there will be different rules."
Speaking on Sunday, French President Francois Hollande said there was no going back on the UK's decision, adding: "What was once unthinkable has become irreversible."Speaking on Sunday, French President Francois Hollande said there was no going back on the UK's decision, adding: "What was once unthinkable has become irreversible."
On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the EU had "no need to be particularly nasty in any way" in the negotiations with Britain.