BORIS’ VILE SLUR AT PM OVER ‘BETRAYAL’
Johnson’s C-word blast
FURIOUS Boris Johnson considered sending Rishi Sunak a video calling him the C-word, his former spin doctor has claimed.
The shamed PM, his power rapidly diminishing, saw it as “the great betrayal of all time” when his Chancellor quit.
Guto Harri, Mr Johnson’s communications chief, said: “Rishi didn’t even tell Boris he was going to go. Basically, he went public with a resignation.
“Boris found a little video on the internet that expressed what he wanted to say.
“He didn’t send it but he sent it to me and said ‘thinking of sending this to Rishi’.”
The video ended with the message: “You’re a c***.”
Two days after Mr Sunak quit, Mr Johnson, rocked by mass Government resignations, said he would stand down as PM.
In Unprecedented, a podcast on his time in No10,
Mr Harri said tension between the PM and his Chancellor had been building for a while.
Johnson was frustrated
He found a video that expressed what he had to say
GUTO HARRI ON FURY OF EX-PM JOHNSON
with Sunak, now PM, acting “like a bank manager”. Mr Harri said: “Boris blew up. Sadly, Rishi was not in the room. “Boris just basically went ‘f*** this sh**, man, f*** this sh**’.
“We need to clear out the Treasury. It’s acting like a bank manager not an engine of growth. We need Singaporeon-Thames. We need dynamism.” Mr Harri claimed the ex-PM believed Tory MPs were “psychotic” for pressuring him after a series of scandals. He said: “Something was happening he’d never had to deal with before. He was in big trouble. “The police were trawling all over Partygate and an inquiry led by civil servant Sue Gray was planning what he described as an orgy of pain and humiliation.” Earlier this week Mr Harri said the then PM repeatedly denounced Ms Gray as “Psycho Sue” as he raged about the probe into his illegal No 10 parties.
■ Unprecedented is available on Global Player.