John Bercow has branded Boris Johnson a “narcissist” in a blistering assault during which he accused him of being “answerable for a list of failures”.
The previous Speaker of the Home of Commons mentioned that it’s time that he give up as prime minister and “beetled off into the gap”.
Mr Bercow, a staunch supporter of the European Union, was a Tory MP for Buckingham earlier than he defected to Labour final yr.
He appeared on Sky Information’ The Nice Debate on Monday night and instructed host Trevor Phillips that Mr Johnson is “ritually dishonest”.
Mr Bercow mentioned: “By no means has a major minister wielded a lot energy, made so little efficient use of it and been and been seen to be in fairly such an indecent haste to sing his own praises.
“I’ve been conscious of 12 prime ministers in my lifetime, by a rustic mile Boris Johnson is the worst.
“He’s a narcissist, he doesn’t do the element, he’s ritually dishonest – having a nodding acquaintance with the reality at greatest solely in a bissextile year.
“He’s answerable for a list of failures, he’s probably the most inarticulate public speaker and prime minister I’ve ever identified, he has no redeeming virtues, he has stayed there far too lengthy.
“It’s time that he gave up workplace and beetled off into the gap, which might be an unlimited aid – not simply to this nation and to the European continent, however to the world.”
Mr Bercow then jokes: “And one among today, Trevor, I’ll attempt to inform you what I actually suppose.”
Final month on his podcast Absolute Energy, he known as on Mr Johnson to resign, and blasted him as “shameless” and “completely narcissistic”.
Mr Bercow criticised Mr Johnson over the ‘Partygate’ scandal after it was revealed that occasions had been held in plenty of authorities buildings whereas strict coronavirus lockdown guidelines had been in drive – 12 of that are being investigated by police.
Mr Bercow mentioned that the prime minister’s apology in parliament after it was reported that he attended a Downing Road backyard social gathering, and insisting he believed it was a piece occasion, was “completely dreadful”.
Earlier than he stood down as Speaker and Buckingham MP in 2019, the pair typically locked horns over the Withdrawal Settlement’s passage by means of the Commons forward of Britain’s departure from the EU in 2020.
Mr Bercow has been embroiled in his personal scandal involving allegations that he bullied plenty of Commons employees, which he was discovered responsible of by an inquiry that he denounced in January as a “kangaroo court docket”.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
