Daily Mirror - 24.07.2019

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REALLY NOT FUNNY ANY MORE

YOU DONE!

JOHN MCDONNELL

Labour Shadow Chancellor

are grim reality confronting

false optimism.

Soon, even a fair chunk of a

Tory Party desperately

gambling on the Old Etonian

dunce to vanquish Right-wing

rival Nigel Farage and the

Brexit Party will be wishing

they’d picked loser Jeremy

Hunt or stuck with May.

Yes, it’ll be that bad.

Brexit is either her tweaked

deal with grinning chancer

Johnson’s face on the front or

we stay in Europe.

The US is lumbered with

Donald Trump and the Tories

have landed Great Britain with

his bumbling Mini-Me.

Buckle up, It’s going to be a

bumpy ride. Though it may

not last long with an election

our ticket out of this mess.

believes he was born to rule

and the British people are just

suckers to be played.

Labour will move heaven

and earth to prevent Johnson

damaging our country.

If we don’t act decisively on

climate change our children

will have no planet to inherit.

That’s why we will prevent

Johnson backing the interests

of his fossil fuel industry pals.

And with over four-and-a-

half million children in poverty

we will block his tax giveaways

to his rich friends and ensure

they pay taxes so we can end

the suffering caused by the

Tories’ Universal Credit.

Labour will show people

what a wonderful country

Britain could be again.

THE coronation of Boris

Johnson is a huge turning

point for politics in the UK.

All of us need to wake up to

the fact politics as we have

known it has changed

dramatically for the worst.

Boris Johnson introduces

something largely alien to our

political culture and history.

We have always expected

our politicians to adhere to

basic democratic standards.

Standards like respect for

Parliament, decency, respect

for the truth and for others.

But do not expect Boris

Johnson to ever abide by

these standards, because he

doesn’t believe he has to.

Like his other rich friends in

the Bullingdon Club, he

This is a huge turning

point in British politics

FLOPPING on the big stage as

usual, Boris Johnson’s drivel

was the half-arsed babble of a

self-entitled fraud who’d be

out of his depth in a puddle.

Far from setting the

country on fire the Tory

egomaniac – imposed as

Prime Minister by fewer

people than live in Wigan or

Basildon – was a wet blanket.

He ended his ramblings

with an awful ‘Dude’ joke.

Johnson’s absence of fizz,

urgency, intellectualism and

preparation is the shallowness

of a clown with no viable plan

beyond moving into No10.

Ministerial resignations,

horrified MPs, defection

threats and near certain

defeat in next week’s Brecon

and Radnorshire by-election

Babbling fraud who’d be

out of depth in a puddle

0.

Percentage of the UK

electorate the 92,

Tories who voted for

Johnson make up

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austerity as they went for the £650 Sophia

bucket bag with Albany silk scarf, rather than

a near identical one from Liberty for £150.

The final bill for the spree, organised by

Michael Gove, was thought to be nearly

£1,500. A Downing Street source said: “It was

a genuinely nice ending.”

May bags luxury gifts in send-off

TORY Cabinet ministers bought Theresa May

a £650 leather handbag and a £

necklace in a leaving present whip-round.

Even the most ardent plotters coughed up

£50 a head for the lavish gifts presented to

Mrs May at her final Cabinet meeting

yesterday. And ministers showed no signs of

aides writing the address he will deliver on

the steps of No10 today. He was also

finalising his Cabinet with little-known MP

Mark Spencer confirmed as his chief whip.

It is a crucial position as Mr Johnson

attempts to govern with a working

Tory-DUP majority of just two – and at risk

of falling further if his party loses next

week’s Brecon and Radnorshire by-election.

DUP leader Arlene Foster confirmed the

deal remained in place but suggested its

terms would be reviewed.

Gavin Williamson and Priti Patel, both

fired in the past, are expected to make

a comeback.

Mr Johnson yesterday met the 1922

Committee of MPs where it was claimed he

promised to “love bomb” those who did not

back him. But a new YouGov poll showed

nearly half of voters expect him to be a poor

or terrible PM.

New Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson has said

her “door is open” to Labour and Tory MPs

looking to defect from their parties.

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MP, Keith Simpson, left

grumbling: “The circus has

come to town.” He accused

fawning colleagues of being

“ambitious little sh**s”. Mr

Johnson, 55, was watched

by dad Stanley and siblings

Jo and Rachel as he was

crowned leader. There was

no sign of girlfriend Carrie

Symonds, 31. His four adult children did not

turn up. Mr Hunt was with wife Lucia.

Last night, Mr Johnson was holed up with

task force. Foreign Minister

Javad Zarif said: “Iran does

not seek confrontation.

“But we have 1,500 miles

of Persian Gulf coastline.

These are our waters and

we will protect them.”

It came after Iran seized

the British-flagged tanker

Stena Impero on Friday in

the Straits of Hormuz. Mr Johnson later met

Tory MPs in Parliament, accompanied by

Sajid Javid, tipped to be his Chancellor. One

He’s been

elected by

less than

100,000. On a

programme of

a no-deal exit

JEREMY CORBYN ON BORIS

JOHNSON WINNING PM RACE

DUDES

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Mr Johnson

yesterday.

Right, Carrie

KEVIN MAGUIRE

Mirror Associate Editor