Charles privy to top-secret spy briefings
Prince of Wales BY CHRIS HUGHES PRINCE Charles was briefed on Britain’s top-secret cyber wars against terrorists and hostile countries during a visit to GCHQ yesterday.
As patron of Britain’s three main intelligence agencies – GCHQ, MI6 and MI5 – the Prince of Wales was at GCHQ’s Cheltenham headquarters to mark its centenary year.
Director Jeremy Fleming and his top spooks are believed to have talked to Charles about tension in the Middle East.
Fleming said: “It was an honour to welcome His Royal Highness to commemorate 100 years of GCHQ’s work keeping the country safe.”
The Prince of Wales was treated to a Red Arrows display during his visit. Ed and Cherry VOTERS believe Boris Johnson is a “buffoon” and “irresponsible”, self-serving” and “untrustworthy”, a poll of 1703 people revealed.
Johnson’s hero is wartime leader Winston Churchill – but just four per cent of those polled picked “Churchillian” as one of three words to describe him.
Some 39 per cent think he is a buffoon and 31 per cent said he is untrustworthy.
Only two per cent of those quizzed by YouGov chose “statesman-like”, and “diplomatic”. But nine per cent chose “racist” and eight per cent “womaniser”.
It comes as 160,000 Tory members choose between him and Jeremy Hunt as their next leader and Britain’s PM.
“These results show that the country is antiBoris Johnson – and that’s no surprise,” said Best for Britain’s Naomi Smith. “It’s disgraceful a tiny fraction of the population will be forcing this buffoon on us.”
of voters think Boris Johnson is a buffoon of those polled say the Tory hopeful is untrustworthy
condition the mindset”. The ex-foreign secretary admitted his appearance in this week’s ITV debate had fuelled the resignation of Britain’s ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch.
He had been condemned for failing to support the envoy over his row with Donald Trump, after leaked memos revealed what he thought of the US president.
“He [Sir Kim] said that what somebody had relayed to him had certainly played, had been a factor, in his resignation,” said Johnson.
And he was left stumped over a key part of his own Brexit plan, under a paragraph of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs.
Johnson has repeatedly claimed Britain can continue to trade with the EU using “Article 24, Paragraph 5B”.
Neil asked him: “Do you know what’s in 5C?” Johnson confessed: “No.” a no-deal Brexit could mean the loss of “thousands of jobs”, May insisted: “I sacrificed my job to try to get a deal.” She also would not accept the snap general election in 2017 – that led to a crippling deal with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionists – was a mistake. May blamed others, saying: “I don’t regret calling the election, just a campaign that wasn’t really me.”