I can recall he was one of a band of different Brexit charlatans like Farage, Johnson, Truss (and many more "con artists" attached to the Tory party or UKIP) who professed "how easy it was all gonna be"(????), but also note how they perceived they could negotiate a deal with the EU and contemptuously viewed it to be easily amended later on if it didn't suit them. The contempt shown to the EU was jaw dropping at the time considering that the EU was not breaking all trade with the UK!! It was the other way around - the UK was leaving the biggest market place in the world!