DAMNING TRANSCRIPT

Elliott Johnson (EJ): ‘I’m here for an apology, Mark.’

Mark Clarke (MC): ‘That’s not going to happen.’

EJ: ‘It’s not right to bully people in pubs.’

Andre Walker (AW): ‘Everyone who (inaudible) with the Vichy Government got shot in the end. F****** d*** h***.’

MC: ‘I said to you, “Don’t slag me off”.’

AW: ‘You [EJ] behaved disgracefully! You’ve taken a cardinal rule and stamped all over it! They [names two senior Tory enemies of Clarke] are c****.’

EJ (to MC): ‘It was disgraceful to attack me in the pub.’

MC: ‘I was disappointed you were telling lies about

me. People in the Conservative family should be fighting the enemy, not each other.’

EJ: ‘Until the virtual beat-up in the bar, I wasn’t going to do anything. You bloody well need a kick up the a*** for doing that kind of stuff to people. CCHQ [Tory HQ] don’t like you.’

MC: ‘What do you know about other complaints?’

EJ: ‘Every man and his dog knows… in a generic sense.’

MC: ‘Generic?’ EJ: ‘Adultery, other things.’ MC: ‘Adultery?’ EJ: ‘I don’t give a toss!’ MC: ‘People are putting complaints about me and adultery?’

EJ: ‘I don’t f****** care! It is all going a bit s*** [for EJ] at the moment.’

MC: ‘Did [names two other Tory foes] encourage you to complain?’

EJ: ‘They knew. They’re my friends.’

MC: ‘You can’t put toothpaste back in the tube. Politics is a long game. Be careful about making irreversible decisions.’

EJ: ‘My mistake was getting involved.’

MC: ‘Are you desperate for a job for rent and stuff? Savings? Parents?’

EJ: [Says he wants to be MP’s aide].

MC: ‘Have you told the Commons authorities about your caution?’

EJ: ‘Robert Halfon [Tory deputy chairman] said it’s no problem. It’s weird you saying, “We know you have this [problem], we’re going to tell the Press”. I don’t appreciate tactics like that – and I doubt it’s the first time you have done it.’ MC: [inaudible].

EJ (to AW): ‘If he [MC] apologised I’d withdraw it.’

AW: ‘For f***’s sake… You’ve ended up running down a road you don’t want to be on. People have been let down.’ MC: ‘I don’t care, I’m going.’ EJ: ‘See you, Mark.’