BORIS JOHNSON has boasted about championing immigration and said EU free movement could continue beyond 2020.

The Foreign Secretary became the latest senior Government figure to admit unlimited EU immigration will remain beyond Brexit in March 2019.

3 Boris Johnson has admitted free movement of EU citizens into UK could continue after Brexit in 2019 Credit: Reuters

Speaking in Greece, he echoed the Prime Minister in saying it was possible free movement will remain during a ‘transitional’ phase post-Brexit.

And the Vote Leave campaigner said: “In the last 10 years I have been one of the few British politicians to speak up on the benefits of immigration.”

He added that Brexit Britain didn’t want to “close the doors”.

3 The Foreign Secretary made the comments during a visit to Greece, pictured here with his Greek counterpart , Nikos Kotzias Credit: Getty Images

He said: “We simply want to have a system that is balanced.”

The comments came late on Thursday during a visit to the Greek capital.

During the Referendum campaign, Boris Johnson announced plans for an Australian-style points system at the border – and said migrants would be barred from Britain unless they could speak good English and had the right skills for a job.

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3 Prime Minister Theresa May has already refused to rule out an 'implementation phase' of free movement after Brexit Credit: Alamy

Earlier this week Theresa May refused to rule out accepting free movement as the price of an “implementation phase” of a Brexit deal with the EU.

This could see free movement remaining for five years- the upcoming two years of divorce talks and a further three as any agreement is implemented.

Last week the Sun revealed one Cabinet Minister claiming the Government’s net migration target of 100,000 was all-but dead and buried.