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Boris Johnson and several high-ranking conservatives have been savagely attacked by the former Prime Minister’s deputy in scathing memoirs.
Sir Alan Duncan, who was Mr. Johnson number two when he was foreign secretary, calls the current prime minister a “shameful buffoon.”
But he is also scathing with many senior Conservative government ministers, including former prime ministers. David cameron and Theresa May.
Sir Alan, who resigned as an MP in 2019 after 27 years in the Commons, unleashes his barbs in his diaries entitled The Thick Of It, which is serialized in the Daily Mail.
In addition to describing Johnson as a “clown,” he claims they had a dispute over a report about diplomats treating him as an “international joke.”
When Mr. Johnson is said to have asked, “Why don’t you take me seriously?” Sir Alan claims he replied, “Look in the mirror!”
Johnson poses with UN Secretary General António Guterres and his deputy Sir Alan Duncan (right) in 2017.
In the diaries, Sir Alan says Secretary of the Interior Priti Patel he is “a nothing person, a complete and utter nightmare.”
He claims that the late Sir Anthony King of the University of Essex had called an anonymous politician who studied there as “abysmal beyond measure” as a student.
“The press named John Bercow, but in fact he was Priti Patel,” says Sir Alan.
Theresa May is described as “a scared rabbit, a cardboard cutout,” while Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove is called “a weirdo.”
David Cameron is “too simplistic”, Emily Thornberry of Labor a “graceless clumsy”, and former Defense Minister Tobias Ellwood a “childish idiot”.
But the harshest criticism is reserved for Johnson. Sir Alan accuses him of “blatant selfish ambition” and claims that he did not know the details of Brexit.
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He had a “self-deceiving simulated romantic passion,” writes Sir Alan, and is a “shameless clot” and an “international stain on our reputation.”
Sir Alan claims that although he publicly supported Ms May, Mr Johnson privately “despised” her and was “right behind her to push her off a cliff”.
