Cameron launches ‘two-face’ Boris Brexit attack on rival
PM claims that BoJo had ‘told a lot of people he’d never been a leaver’ before opting for Out - and attacks Hitler comments
DAVID Cameron last night accused Boris Johnson of being two-faced over Brexit.
The PM said BoJo had “told a lot of people he’d never been a leaver” before opting for Out.
He also used an LBC radio interview to say Boris was “wrong” to compare the European Union to Hitler.
He was “sad and disappointed” that BoJo and Michael Gove had opted for Brexit.
But in a thinly-veiled swipe at the pair he said: “I’ve got no other agenda than saying what I think is right for our country. I’ll let Boris explain his thinking and Michael ditto.”
It came as Mr Cameron said he was ducking TV debates because “I don’t want too many blue-on-blue conflicts”.
Earlier Tory MP Steve Baker called for a clean fight in the referendum.
Mr Baker accused No10 of orchestrating Lord Heseltine’s attack on Boris this week and being behind “smears” against other key figures.
Mr Johnson hit back at Mr Cameron’s EU reform deal and branded the abandoned Sovereignty Bill a “farce” which would “achieve nothing”.
He insisted: “I have been a Eurosceptic for decades and was hoping the PM would achieve fundamental reform and full-on treaty change.
“Alas we achieved none of that. No one could credibly claim that this was a reformed EU.” The PM last night accepted he should have included a bill in the Queen’s Speech to protect the NHS from the new EU-US trade deal.
His climbdown means 25 Tory European rebels and Labour MPs will not spark a Commons showdown next week.
Meanwhile former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday warned that jobs and investment in the UK would be “materially affected” by a Brexit.