British backbencher Boris Johnson is in strife over comments on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan, which likened the negotiations to ‘putting Britain in a suicide vest and handing the detonator to the European Union’.
Johnson’s comment, made in the Daily Mail, has been widely condemned by Government Ministers and colleagues, with Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan saying it’s the “most disgusting comment in modern British politics”.
Mr Johnson, former Foreign Secretary who resigned in July primarily over Brexit negotiations, has been outspoken since and leads a group within the Conservative Party that support a “hard Brexit” model.