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WATCH: Boris Johnson brings EU referendum Brexit bedlam to Stafford

[gallery] Boris Johnson branded the Prime Minister's EU reforms 'the biggest stitch-up since the Bayeux Tapestry' as he was mobbed by a crowd of hundreds in Stafford.

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The former London mayor posed for selfies and chatted with members of the public as he visited town on the Vote Leave battle bus.

Mr Johnson, who was flanked by pro-Brexit MPs Douglas Carswell and Gisela Stuart, addressed a cheering crowd from a stage in front of the Guildhall Shopping Centre.

He said: "This is a once in lifetime chance for us to take back control of this country, my friends.

"The organisation we all now know as the European Union has changed beyond all recognition from what we signed up to in the 1970s.

"If we vote leave on June 23 we can take back control of £350 million a week and spend it on our priorities here, including the NHS.

"We can take control of our immigration system."

Mr Johnson said David Cameron's EU renegotiation was 'meaningless', calling it 'a fiction designed to bamboozle the public'.

"It is the biggest stitch-up since the Bayeux Tapestry," he added.

Mr Johnson finished his short speech with a rallying cry for people to vote for a Brexit on the June 23 referendum.

Mr Johnson also visited recycling business JBMI Group in Hixon as part of his trip.

There he set fire to a giant £350m cheque – hurling the 'Bank of UK Taxpayer' mock-up into a blast furnace to symbolise the £350m that Leave campaigners claim the UK is burning every week by its EU membership.

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