Sheesh. Rory Stewart clearly doesn’t ‘do’ irony! He is also clearly riddled with bitterness and jealousy over a man who is much more successful than he could ever be.
Johnson – twice elected Mayor of Labour London; winner of the Conservative leadership contest and democratically elected Prime Minister with a majority of 80.
Stewart – failure as London Mayoral candidate; failure in the Conservative leadership contest; anti-Brexiteer who was in favour of overturning the Democratic referendum.
Boris has nothing to fear from the vituperative tongue of Florence of Arabia.
By the way, Boris won a scholarship to Eton whilst Stewart …..

Flashback: Rory Stewart really doesn’t like Boris Johnson
The former minister's article echoes his UnHerd interview from October
Rory Stewart doesn’t exactly hide his feelings about Boris Johnson. In an interview with Freddie Sayers last October he described the Prime Minister as a “disturbing” individual. What bothered Stewart about Johnson was a lack of “self-control”, made up for by a charm that allowed him to slide through one crisis after another with ease. “He’s not my type of man,” said Stewart:
These scathing comments were little more than a throat-clearing for Stewart’s latest assessment of Johnson. Reviewing Tom Bower’s new Boris biography for the TLS, Stewart expanded his attack on multiple fronts.
Here he is on the Prime Minister’s tendency to lie:
For Stewart, Johnson’s lies are not even leavened by having a clear political object. They’re just lies. He is unimpressed by the way Johnson has glossed them in the past:
The PM often compares himself with his great idol, the Athenian statesman and master orator Pericles. Stewart takes the comparison seriously — and finds it wanting. Yes, “they both enjoy good speeches, democratic engagement, big infrastructure and fame. But Pericles built the Parthenon, not the Emirates Cable Car.” Ouch.
Well he’s half right, Johnson does tell lies and lies often.
It’s a rather massive stretch to claim he’s ‘the best’ at this or that this makes him uniquely unfit for office. During my time we’ve had a Parliment of rogues lie to get elected then try to reverse Brexit, all the while lying through their teeth about their motives – and in such an obvious way. We’ve had Cameron who ‘promised’ to not resign. We had May who lied, lied and lied again about Brexit. Then maybe we get to Tony Blair, a man who lied on a scale that would surely make even Boris blush.
Now the true issue with Johnson in my mind is the ease with which he has adopted authoritarianism. Ruling by decree and talking to the censored press before Parliment. With this he’s on Blair’s level of comtempt for the British people.
‘talking to the censored press before Parliment.’ (sic)
If you have proof that the leaks are from Boris, I would love to see it.
Boris may be many things, but fool, he is not. Whoever is leaking, it is not to Boris’s advantage.
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