Boris’s father slammed for ‘Irish will shoot each other’ slur on daytime TV

SAMMY Wilson MP has said Boris Johnson’s father Stanley is a loose cannon and a nonentity after he claimed Margaret Thatcher would have fixed the Irish border Brexit dilemma by saying “if the Irish want to shoot each other, they will shoot each other”.

Mr Johnson Sr, whose former foreign secretary son Boris last month claimed that Theresa May’s Brexit strategy had put the UK “in a suicide vest” and handed the detonator to Brussels, made the statement on the ITV show Good Morning Britain yesterday.

In an interview with hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid, he said that former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (right) would have found the focus on the Irish border in the Brexit negotiations to be unacceptable.

He said: “She would have said it is quite intolerable that this whole question of a Northern Ireland border has come to dominate a decision about the future of our country.”

When asked how Mrs Thatcher would have fixed the issue, he continued: “She would have said, ‘Look, if the Irish want to shoot each other they will shoot each other whether there is a hard border or whether there is a soft border, that is something the Irish will do if they want to do it’.

“So I think basically Mrs Thatcher would not have had any truck with this scheme by the EU to elevate the border question into a way of making sure we stay in the EU.”

DUP Brexit spokesperson Sammy Wilson slammed Mr Johnson Sr as a “nonentity” and accused him of making “flippant” comments which “could be considered quite hurtful to Troubles victims’ families”.

He added: “It doesn’t surprise me — he’s a loose cannon.

“It’s not Margaret Thatcher, it’s Theresa May who is making these