Boris Johnson criticized for comparing Brexit to Ukraine

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come under fire after comparing the plight of Ukrainians fighting Russia's invasion of their homeland to Britain's vote for Brexit.
63% : "Comparing the Ukrainian people's fight against Putin's tyranny to the British people voting for Brexit damages the standard of statecraft we were beginning to exhibit," he wrote.
62% : Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's chief Brexit negotiator, said Johnson's remarks were "insane." "Brexit was about undoing freedoms and leaving the EU...Ukrainians want more freedom and to join the EU!"
56% : When the British people voted for Brexit in such large numbers, I don't believe it was because they were remotely hostile to foreigners, it's because they wanted to be free to do things differently and for this country to be able to run itself."
49% : In a speech at the Conservative Party's spring conference on Saturday, Johnson said Ukrainian people were choosing freedom, just as the British people had in the 2016 vote to leave the European Union.
38% : "It is utterly distasteful and insulting to compare the fight for freedom and the aggression of the Russian state to the decision to leave the European Union," Reeves told Sky News.

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