Boris Johnson to appear in court over Brexit misconduct claims

Boris Johnson has been summoned to court to face accusations of misconduct in public office over claims that he lied by saying Britain gave £350m a week to the European Union.

The ruling follows a crowdfunded move to launch a private prosecution of the MP, who is the frontrunner in the Tory leadership contest.

Boris Johnson on if he’ll stand for Tory leader: ‘Of course’

Boris Johnson confirmed Thursday that he wants to replace Theresa May as leader of the Conservative Party.

“Of course I’m going to go for it,” the former foreign secretary told a business event in Manchester, the Evening Standard reported.

May has said she will step down as Conservative leader before the next stage of the Brexit negotiations and that she won’t be party leader at the next general election. However, no date has been given for her departure.

The prime minister on Thursday met with Graham Brady, chairman of the powerful Conservative backbench 1922 committee, to discuss her future.

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Source: politico.eu
Author:  Paul Dallison 

Boris Johnson Firm Favourite To Replace PM, HuffPost UK Poll Reveals

Boris Johnson is the public’s preferred candidate for PM should Theresa May step down – but he is less popular than Jeremy Corbyn and would most likely lose a general election to Labour, a poll for HuffPost UK has revealed.

From a list of leading Tories, the former foreign secretary was backed by 20% of those asked who should take over as prime minister if May is forced to quit before the next election.

Boris Johnson 'Self-Destructing' And Dragging Country Down With Him, Former Right-Hand Man Says

Boris Johnson has dug his own “political grave” following his remarks comparing Theresa May’s Brexit plan to a suicide vest, his former close aide has declared.

Guto Harri, Johnson’s Communications Director during his first term as Mayor of London, broke his silence to launch a withering assessment of his former boss’s conduct.

Tories in civil war after Boris Johnson Brexit 'suicide vest' remarks

The Conservative party has erupted into open civil war after forceful criticism of Boris Johnson over his description of Theresa May’s Brexit plan as a “suicide vest” prompted counter-accusations of a “project smear” by Downing Street.

The furious exchanges, in which a leading Tory backbencher said she would probably quit the party if Johnson became leader, herald a turbulent run-up to the party’s conference this month, which is likely to be dominated by intertwined rows over Brexit and the successor to Theresa May.

Boris Johnson: UK gets 'diddly squat' from May's Brexit plans

Boris Johnson has savaged Theresa May's Brexit plans, saying they would leave the UK with "diddly squat" after the negotiations and hand the EU "victory".

The ex-foreign secretary used his Daily Telegraph column to say the Chequers deal "means disaster" for Britain.

Boris Johnson Refuses To Share A Platform With Nigel Farage On Ukip MEP's Brexit Tour

Boris Johnson has ruled out sharing a platform with Nigel Farage as the former Ukip leader tours the country to fight against the government’s plan for Brexit.

HuffPost UK has been told the former foreign secretary will not join forces with the MEP, despite both being opposed to Theresa May’s negotiating stance with Brussels.

Farage announced over the weekend he would join a battle bus tour organised by the Leave Means Leave campaign group, as he feels May’s Chequers agreement “is nothing less than a direct betrayal of everything people voted for.”

Boris Johnson is auditioning to lead a grim, insular Britain

For many years it struck me as amusing rather than ominous that the place where I first spent any time with Boris Johnson was a Munich beerhall. We were journalists covering a defence summit in the 1990s. We’d both filed our pieces – he to the Telegraph, me to the Guardian – and we were bored. So, along with the man from the Times, we took a taxi into the city centre and spent the rest of the afternoon drinking beer and chatting. Johnson made a lot of good jokes, and one or two rather loud and tasteless ones about Hitler and Munich beerhalls.

Brexiteers Boris Johnson And Michael Gove Are 'Clueless' About Economics, Says Ex-Treasury Minister Lord O'Neill

Brexiteers such as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove are “clueless” about the world economy, a former Tory Treasury minister has declared.

Lord O’Neill of Gatley said that Johnson was a “ludicrous” figure and that he and Liam Fox were “crazy” to focus on “shameful” talk of trade deals with Commonwealth countries like New Zealand, rather than China.

Boris Johnson Met Professor Who Told Trump Adviser Russia Had Dirt on Clinton

Boris Johnson, the British foreign secretary, was photographed last month with Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese professor who allegedly tipped off former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopolous in early 2016 that the Russian government had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, in the form of “thousands of emails.”

The image, posted on Facebook by a British-Indian associate of Mifsud, Prasenjit Kumar, appears to have been taken on October 19 at a Conservative Party fundraiser in Reading, outside London. Eleven days later, when court documents revealing Papadopolous’s guilty plea were unsealed, the previously obscure Mifsud became the focus of international attention.

Liam Fox Warns Against 'Overreaction' To Boris Johnson's Claim About Briton Jailed In Iran

Liam Fox has been condemned after he said that Boris Johnson’s claim that a British woman being held in an Iranian prison was training journalists was merely a “slip of the tongue”.

There are fears Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is serving a five-year sentence, could have her time in jail extended as a direct result of the foreign secretary’s comment.

Hurricane Irma: British Mother Trapped Amid Violence And Destruction Accuses Boris Johnson Of 'Abandoning' Brits

A British mother-of-two trapped in the Caribbean after hurricane Irma has hit out at Boris Johnson, saying he has “abandoned” British citizens while trying to insist the rescue effort has been effective.

For several days Amy Brown, along with other Brits and EU nationals, has hoped for evacuation from St Martin, having become stuck as the hurricane tore through the region, killing four people on the French/Dutch island and destroying buildings and infrastructure.

Boris Johnson says BBC debate audience was 'most leftwing ever seen'

Boris Johnson has added his voice to those claiming the studio audience for Wednesday night’s BBC leaders’ debate was biased against the Conservatives, calling it “the most leftwing audience I’ve ever seen”.

The foreign secretary’s comments echo those of other Conservatives, whose outcry prompted the Daily Mail to run the story on Thursday’s front page.

Frankie Boyle Compares Boris Johnson To Fascist Oswald Mosley In Latest Brexit Column

Comedian and political commentator Frankie Boyle’s withering column about the Tory government’s Brexit strategy has bestowed Boris Johnson with an intensely sinister new persona.

Within Boyle’s dystopian view of the future, the Foreign Secretary is comparable to the essence of 1930s fascist leader Oswald Moseley, trapped in the form of a soft toy.

“Boris’s actual purpose? He’s just there to divert us from the horrific things the government is planning, like a nodding dog stuck to a serial killer’s dashboard. The media has a lot to answer for in terms of promoting the image that Boris is sweet and cuddly, when in fact he’s more like Oswald Mosley’s soul trapped in a Furby.”

Boris Johnson accused of bad taste for calling Brexit 'liberation'

Boris Johnson has been taken to task by a Swedish MEP who accused the UK foreign secretary of “bad taste” and political insensitivity after he repeatedly referred to Brexit as “a liberation”, in a spat caught on camera at the recent Munich security conference.

According to footage that emerged on Wednesday, Johnson was confronted about his choice of language by Anna Maria Corazza Bildt during a panel discussion on the future of the west.

Boris Johnson Tells Friends He Believes Number 10 ‘Is After Him’

Boris Johnson has told friends he believes Number 10 is “after him” following a serious of gaffes and disagreements, it has been reported.

It comes after a tumultuous few weeks for the Foreign Secretary who has been publicly slapped down by Downing Street for comments over Saudi Arabia, and joked about the Prime Minister’s controversial choice of trousers.

Boris Johnson denies privately backing free movement of people

Boris Johnson has denied privately telling a group of ambassadors that he supported the principle of free movement, and said he had always made it clear that the UK needed to “take back control” of immigration.

The British foreign secretary was cornered by journalists in a hotel lobby in Rome, where he was speaking on a panel about migration, and was forced to respond to allegations that he personally supported free movement, a view contrary to the official position of Theresa May’s government.

Boris Johnson is a clown who has united the EU against Britain

Britain can be proud of itself. Once again, it had already shown the world the way. In propelling Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage to triumph on 23 June, it demonstrated well before 8 November that Donald Trump was nothing new.

In fact foolishness, vulgarity, inconsistency and irresponsibility seem actually to be British inventions that have been painstakingly copied – once more – by the Americans.

Boris Johnson Offering ‘Intellectually Impossible’ Life To British People Outside The EU

Boris Johnson has been accused of offering British people a vision of life outside the European Union that is “intellectually impossible” and “politically unavailable”.

Dutch finance minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem warned the UK could not expect continued unfettered access to European markets after Brexit unless it accepted free movement of labour.

Boris Johnson's Brexit vision 'intellectually impossible' – EU minister

Boris Johnson is promising the British people a Brexit deal that is “intellectually impossible” and “politically unavailable”, according to the Dutch finance minister and Eurogroup president.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem delivered a scathing attack on Johnson after the foreign secretary claimed the UK would probably be leaving the customs union while also seeking free trade with the EU and extra immigration controls.