Asked at the G7 summit whether Britain was better off than it was six years ago when it was still part of the bloc, he told CNN: “It’s (better off). Let me give you a give an example.
“Thanks to the position we took, we had an independent medical agency that was able to make sure that the first Covid vaccine was in anyone’s arms in the world in the UK.”
He added: “Secondly, we have been able to do a lot of free trade agreements around the world. And we are able to change some of our regulations to take back control of our borders.
“We no longer spend large sums of money on projects we could not control. And that was a good decision.”
Commenting on Russia’s war in Ukraine, he, Mr. Johnson, adding: “I do not think that the UK within the European Union and within the kind of matrix of the common foreign and security policy we had then, I do not think we would have been ahead, as the first European country to have the Ukrainians armed, to give them the means to protect themselves.
“I think it speaks of a country that thinks differently about things, that thinks about the world with a more global perspective and is ambitious.
“It does not mean we are less European. We are still European, but I think we have a more global approach.”