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Boris Johnson's view in 2007 on Gordon Brown becoming PM

As the article says: "The problem with writing a regular newspaper column when you’re a chronic wannabe prime minister is clearer than ever in this 2007 Telegraph piece that your mole has dredged up. Writing about the Labour prime minister Gordon Brown, who took over from Tony Blair without an election, Boris Johnson lays into Brown’s lack of “mandate from the British people”. He describes the “transition about as democratically proper as the transition from Claudius to Nero”, calling it a “scandal”, “fraud” and “nothing less than a palace coup”. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/06/without-mandate-british-people-how-boris-johnson-described-gordon-brown-2007
Hmmmmmmm

Ivonne Holliday ● 2707d5 Comments

Interesting! In writing about a scandal and a fraud, Johnson could well have been talking about himself! A Freudian mistake, perhaps...

Richard Carter ● 2707d

Absolutely!!But, in pursuit of political power, perhaps Boris is saying do as I say but not as I do?

Ivonne Holliday ● 2707d

Did anyone hear Johnson on BBC World at One today? No major blunders, but wall-to-wall flannel, particularly his fantasies about how he'd achieve Brexit by 31 October. Completely unconvincing, they must have been rolling their eyes in despair in Brussels.

Richard Carter ● 2707d

I'm rolling my eyes in despair in London. Meanwhile Monsieur Macron is en route to France leading the EU when Merkel goes. His ratings seem to be improving just as the GJ protests diminish and will vanish completely once the annual summer holidays begin.

Lucille Grant ● 2707d

Our nation had a PM with similar mandate from 10 May 1940 – 26 July 1945.

Bernard Lopper ● 2707d