Boris plea on Australian job-hunters

The London Mayor said it was time to recognise the “immense opportunities” of striking stronger links with fast-growing economies rather than within the “microclimate of economic gloom” that Europe had become because of the single currency.

And he said the UK should tell Brussels to “stuff it” if it objected to the move – inspired by a teacher who says she was forced to leave London.

The senior Tory, who is holidaying in Australia, was given a letter by Sally Roycroft, an Australian who had been working in London schools.

She was “effectively kicked out of Britain” for not being from the EU, Mr Johnson wrote in his Daily Telegraph column.