Furious Tory Row Breaks Out at State Visit Reception as Boris Defends Record in Government
A furious Tory row broke out at a state visit reception on Tuesday night as Boris Johnson defended his record in government before a gathering of senior Conservative and Reform figures. The Telegraph has the details.
It had been intended as a meeting of minds: senior figures from the Tories and Reform UK dining together as the guests of team Trump.
Instead, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, along with former Cabinet ministers and the broadcaster Andrew Neil, astonished the company with an open spat over the Conservatives’ record in government and the future of politics on the Right.
One witness described “real anger” in the room as the Tory heavyweights argued over immigration, welfare reform and defence spending, while Reform supporters privately observed that the row showed why the Conservatives no longer functioned as a party. …
The mood started to change when Mr Johnson was invited to make a speech in which he heralded the “galaxy of stars” in the room, which included Mark Harper and Sajid Javid, former Cabinet ministers, Lord Dobbs, an author and Tory peer, Adam Holloway, a former Tory MP turned Reform member, and Greta Van Susteren, Newsmax’s star news anchor.
Mr Johnson, seated with Mr Ruddy on the opposite side of the table to Ms Truss, Mr Neil, Mr Harper and Sir Jacob, spoke passionately in defence of Ukraine and defended his record on Brexit.
Mr Neil argued for more defence spending, Ms Truss praised Mr Trump’s leadership, and Reform supporters argued about the need for wholesale change, while a pollster sitting at the table told the room that Reform’s surge was real.
By now “tensions were evident over the last government’s record”, the witness said, which became more heated when Mr Harper, a former transport secretary, spoke up about the need for welfare reform and immigration control.
Why, Mr Neil forcefully asked, had the last government not done this while they were in power?
The witness said: “At that point, Boris robustly defended his government’s record. Boris argued that Brexit gives us powers to reduce immigration if we wish, and said he did reduce it. He also said we shouldn’t bash the contribution migrants make to Britain.”
Sir Jacob played peacemaker with a witty and well-received speech.
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F. off Johnson.
You warmongering bastard.
I hope you rot in hell, and whilst thinking of all the Ukranian and Russian souls you’re responsible for. May they torture your soul forever.
And to think I wished him well when he “caught covid”.
The only person ever to walk into an ICU.
Lol.
Seconded.
Not much consolation for all the damage he has done, but his reaction smacks of desperation.
Well he recovered from the Wuhan Flu and still had the ‘vaccine’ afterwards, or so we are told?
You might get a telling off for this comment. Bozo is well regarded amongst the senior echelons of DS.
I agree with you.
All I can say to that is that they must be very delusional indeed.
I managed to walk into ICU when my appendix disintegrated. And, because I did, they made assumptions and I nearly died… just sayin’.
Seconded. This deceitful, low life man needs leaving in the gutter where he belongs.
“He also said we shouldn’t bash the contribution migrants make to Britain.”
Which is what precisely? We have a debt of £2.8 trillion, an NHS with 7 million on the waiting list which supposedly would collapse without immigrants, public services at breaking point, economic ruin, social fragmentation, people getting poorer because of inflation caused by money printing, £billions spent on hotels for immigrants – so why are we poorer now than before the immigrant hoards started arriving?
All those doctors and engineers that Bozo imported seem to have made this country’s situation worse.
How did that happen?
The Tories?
Who are they?
I can’t remember… the word rings a bell… were they a political party or something like that…?
It’s just that for my life I can’t remember what they stood for.
Never mind.
Tories – the Totalitarians of Rona.
Net Zero.
Open Borders.
The forever war to make the Uketopia the US 51rst state.
Fat Pig Dictator Idiot called himself the Fuehrer during the Rona scamdemic.
He should be hanging somewhere, doing a Mussolini from the lamp-post.
well its apparent that Johnson and Starmer have something in common.
That being Liars of the first order
The other thing they have in common, no one outside of their Westminster echo chamber believes them any more.
Johnson should go back to his breeding duties.
😀😀😀
I can’t defend either of these men, nor indeed those around them, but… Are they liars, or do they really believe what they are saying, I wonder?
Actually, I’m not sure Starmer believes anything, which is why he shows all the sense of direction of a paper bag on a motorway verge… Johnson too seems to cleave to the idea that if you say something often enough, it’s true. So do those both men surround themselves with.
Perhaps it’s a political thing?
I shouldn’t imagine he looks after his 8 or 9 children very well or very often?
The fact that you could call the Lying Oaf a liar on the front page of a newspaper and not expect anything to come of it tells you all you need to know about the odious idiot.
Johnson defending his ‘Boriswave’ is bad enough but that traitorous, lying, unscrupulous ( and still 👱♂️ blonde! ) tosser should be in jail for life for ‘crimes against humanity’ for what he did to the British public and country as a whole during the scamdemic. Asshat!🤬
A graph which says it all;
https://x.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1968270279328821571
Oh definitely the naughty step for that comment Mogs. I have said similar in the past.
I agree with you. The damage and deaths (“manufactured”)of the Scamdemic time were down to Bozo.
I’m not sure that’s entirely fair, Hux…
As the man ‘in charge’, he should carry the can, I suppose, but history will also, surely, judge too those who arraigned against common sense and pushed for faster, harder, deeper restrictions on all our lives, including our current PM.
Johnson, at least, found some spine at the end and refused to shut down the country again, despite being pushed to do so.
The people I blame are those Grima Wormtongues, or SpAds if you prefer, who politicians surround themselves with these days, instead of making original thoughts and decisions for themselves.
Them and the legacy press who sat there night after night lapping up nonsense like “you’re safe if you’re sitting down, but not if you’re standing up… unless you’re also holding a Scotch egg, or wearing a mask we said was useless just yesterday”.
I want the Tories along with Labour to be cast into the dustbin of history, liars, liars, liars. We are particularly looking at you Boris!
Johnson wrecked the tentative Istanbul Agreement, which would have stopped the ‘Military Action’ in Ukraine almost before it started.
For that he needs to be removed from politics altogether. Remember the Minsk Agreements, yet look where the EU is now: up the creek without a paddle.
There are a lot of souls no longer on this planet as a result of Johnson’s activities both home and abroad.
Seconded 👍
It just confirms what we know – the Tories do not think they did much wrong and given the chance they would carry on delivering Lib Dem policies for another five years.
They did this, supported by the civil service and Bank of England.
Was it not the Bank which banjoed Truss?
I guess Johnson has a sense of history and knows he could very well go down as the man who presided over the destruction of the Tory party.
In a way it’s very fitting. All the efforts of these political people go to narrative control, it’s all they really know. They don’t know much about running things or achieving anything substantial. What they know is how to shape narratives to create the impression that any good stuff that happens is thanks to them while putting as much distance as possible between them and the bad stuff.
Basically they’re useless bullshitters.
I can’t believe I’m here ‘defending’ Johnson, but… he had to play the hand he was dealt. He took over a sclerotic party, riven by the internal divisions of the ‘broad church’ they’re always boasting about and facing a hostile media and Civil Service determined to thwart any attempt to do any of the things they’d been elected to do.
As an aside, I still don’t understand why there’s this apparent omertà in politics that demands politicians fall in their swords when their CS brief them badly or actively work against them, rather than exposing and sacking those responsible.
You are right that there is no good reason. Except that the whole thing is really just a pantomime. They pretend to be in control of things. Thats the whole game. So they exaggerate their responsibility, especially when they arent actually responsible..
Falling on one’s sword in politics is very often an upwards career move, especially when they dont really have responsibility and it’s jist for show.
An almost automatic route to ennoblement…
What are you smoking?
Boris is a hollow man. A sell out. Tried the climate gig, then happily shilled for deep state on Ukraine to try and get the NATO job. But that went to EU deep stater Rutte. Now he’s just a lost fart. Should run for London Mayor – he was actually good at that.
Johnson should just shut up, lest some remember who he is and what he did.
The best I can say about Johnson is that he is a coward. All bluster, little substance.
Shan’t write the worst I can say.
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Johnson is a fat, feckless, lazy r-sole.
You’re too generous.
So the Fat Oaf still doesn’t accept that, having “promised” to reduce immigration, effectively dismantling the borders and importing 3 million legal immigrants in 3 years …. 85% of whom were students, dependants or low-wage …. wasn’t a disaster.
That’s why Johnson Fan-girl Dorries should not have been allowed to join Reform.
I remember that Boris Johnson was supposed to have refused to be interviewed by Andrew Neil while he was PM.
I dread the day when Nigel Farage announces that Boris Johnson or Matt Hancock are joining Reform. Nadine Dorris is just about ignorable. I don’t think I could vote for them if any of the big beast of the Covid mafia joined.