Whatever you do BoJo, don’t mention Adolf

WHILE Donald Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer was fighting to keep his job after his hitler chemical weapons gaffe, our own gaffer-in-chief Boris Johnson was unusually quiet.

hardly surprising. our cerebral Foreign Secretary made similar comments three years ago when he was London mayor.

Appearing on Channel 4’s The Last Leg to discuss the Syria crisis, Johnson said: ‘Not even hitler used chemical weapons, as far as i can remember.’

Like Spicer — whose comments drew howls of rebuke because they ignored the Jews and others gassed to death in concentration camps — he had meant chemical weapons use in the battlefield. But the remark hardly marks out the Foreign Secretary as a master of diplomacy.

over the years, Johnson has regularly used the Nazi leader to attack his enemies. he accused George Clooney of pursuing a ‘hitlerian agenda’ when the actor demanded the return of the elgin marbles to Greece; and he said the EU was chasing a similar goal to hitler in its quest for a european superstate.

But when Labour tried to compare Trump to hitler earlier this year, it was a different story. ‘i do draw the line at comparisons that have been made relentlessly between the elected government of our most important ally and the cruel and barbaric tyrannies of the 1930s,’ stormed BoJo.