Boris Johnson says Brexit deal will make Britain an EU colony

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FILE PHOTO: Boris Johnson addresses delegates at a Conservative Home fringe meeting on the third day of the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, October 2, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May and the European Union are stage managing a Brexit deal that will doom the United Kingdom to the status of a colony, former British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Tuesday.

"No one is fooled by this theatre. Delay after staged managed delay," Johnson wrote on Twitter. "A deal will be reached and it will mean surrender by the UK.

"We will be doomed to remain in the customs union and under Brussels' regulatory control. People did not vote for colony status," he said. "The future can be bright if only we change course now."

(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; editing by Michael Holden)