Boris, The Blonde Assassin

It was the moment the Blond Bumbler became the Blond Assassin. 

‘Penny was the first to see him,’ an ally of the former Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt explains, ‘and Boris just said to her, ‘I’m sorry, but there isn’t room for you.’ It was so brutal. It was like he was trying to make an example of her.’

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt was called in soon after and offered her role. 

‘Jeremy told Boris he couldn’t take Penny’s job when she’d just been fired from it for supporting him,’ a friend reveals. So he was swiftly axed too.

‘Boris thought, ‘Fine, I get two of you out for the price of one,’ ‘ says a Johnson confidant.

Among the next to go was Liam Fox. According to Johnson allies, the writing had been on the wall for the International Trade Secretary from the moment he called on Boris to clarify the details of his infamous late-night row with his partner Carrie Symonds.

‘Carrie was really upset about that and Boris was furious. He told people, ‘What are Hunt’s team playing at? If that had happened to Jeremy, I’d have come out and supported him,’ ‘ says one.

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