Senior EU government officials have told BuzzFeed News that Boris Johnson's promise of a post-Brexit Britain with access to the single market and none of the obligations is "delusional".

The Vote Leave campaign leader used his weekly Telegraph column, published on Sunday night, to set out for the first time his views on what the Brexit deal would look like for the UK.

He said Britain would be able to access the single market without sending "a substantial sum of money" to Brussels. While British people "would still be able to go and work in the EU; to live; to travel; to study; to buy homes and to settle down", he said, the UK would introduce a points-based immigration system that would restrict the number of EU citizens entering the country.

"What can I say about BoJo’s column? It’s a little bit delusional. I don’t see how these suggestions could happen," one senior European government official told BuzzFeed News on Monday.

Some have interpreted Johnson’s column as sign that Johnson and the Tory Leavers are aiming for a Norway-style model to continue to access the single market as a member of the European Economic Area (EEA).