U.K.’s Johnson Warns Hollande Not to Act Like a Movie Nazi

  • Says French president shouldn’t hand out ‘punishment beatings’
  • Foreign Secretary risks offending EU before Brexit talks

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

Photographer: Rajat Gupta/EPA
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U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson applied his unique style to the delicate Brexit negotiations by warning French president Francois Hollande against behaving like a Nazi in a World War II movie.

Johnson made the comments during a foreign-policy conference in India on Wednesday when he was asked if Britain will be made to pay a price for leaving the European Union.