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UK PM hopeful Boris Johnson called French ‘turds’: report
LONDON, June 28, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Footage of British prime ministerial
hopeful Boris Johnson calling the French “turds” over their Brexit stance was
cut from a BBC documentary following a request from the Foreign Office, the
Daily Mail reported Friday.
The comments were reportedly made during Johnson’s time as foreign
minister, and were cut out of the fly-on-the-wall documentary “Inside the
Foreign Office”.
A Whitehall memo seen by the paper said the department asked for the
footage to be cut, saying it would make Anglo-French relations “awkward” and
make Brexit negotiations more difficult.
Johnson resigned as Foreign Secretary in protest at Theresa May’s Brexit
plan, and is now the overwhelming favourite to replace her as Conservative
Party leader and prime minister.
“The production team made judgments about what was in the programme and
they are satisfied that the programme achieves its ambitions and has the
content they wanted,” a spokeswoman for the BBC told the Mail.
BSS/AFP/RY/13:14 hrs