Johnson warns UK cannot become 'vassal state' of EU

Britain must strike a strong trade deal with the European Union after Brexit and avoid becoming a subordinate state of the bloc, foreign minister and leading Brexiteer Boris Johnson has told the Sunday Times newspaper.Failure to ditch EU law would make the United Kingdom a "vassal state," Johnson said in an interview to be published on Sunday.The government must aim to "maximise the benefits of Brexit" by getting divergence from the bloc's rules so that it could do "proper free trade deals" with