Boris steals PM’s limelight again – with Mrs Clooney
BORIS JOHNSON will make his latest attempt to upstage Theresa May tomorrow when he appears on a platform with film star George Clooney’s glamorous wife Amal.
The Foreign Secretary will link up with the human rights lawyer when he hosts a UK-led campaign to bring members of Islamic State to justice for the crimes they have committed during their murderous rampage across the Middle East.
Mrs Clooney will join Mr Johnson in calling for the UN to gather evidence against members of IS – also known as Daesh – to bring them to trial. It is the latest example of apparent limelight-stealing by Mr Johnson, who last week lent his name to a campaign to pressure Mrs May into delivering a ‘hard Brexit’ and tried to pre-empt her decision on airport capacity by arguing that the option of expanding Heathrow was a ‘fantasy’ that should be ‘consigned to the dustbin’.
British-Lebanese Mrs Clooney, was thrust to global fame by her marriage to Mr Clooney in 2014. She met David Cameron earlier this year when she visited the former Prime Minister as part of her campaign to free the jailed former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed. Mr Johnson said last night: ‘We have united to defeat Daesh, now we must unite to bring them to justice. That needs to include looking at ways for the UN to support the vital task of gathering evidence about their abhorrent crimes. The global campaign will seek justice for all Daesh’s victims, bringing the international community together in defiance of Daesh’s efforts to stoke division and hate.’ Boris will be travelling without International Trade Secretary Liam Fox, who has lobbied Mrs May to give him, rather than Boris, responsibility for ‘trade diplomacy’. Aides said that Dr Fox was unable to go because he will be on a separate Gulf visit.