Ex-aide: PM is a joke

Former Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan sparked Tory in-fighting yesterday after his diaries savaged a number of former cabinet colleagues, including Boris Johnson.

In his memoirs, serialised in a newspaper yesterday, Duncan, who was deputy when Johnson was Foreign Secretary, said he was “an international stain on our reputation, a selfish, illdisciplined, shambolic, shameless clot”.

Duncan, who quit the politics 16 months ago, lambasts a series of his former colleagues, at one point calling the cabinet “a crowd of zombies, supine, lickspittle cowards”.