In a memoir about his time leading the powerful committee of backbenchers, Sir Graham Brady has laid bare the backroom deals behind the most turbulent decade in Tory history.
In a telling extract about the former prime minister, Lord Brady has detailed how Mr Johnson was so irritated by criticism of Mr Cummings’ infamous lockdown-breaking Barnard Castle trip that he dubbed Conservative MPs “spineless chicken shit”. Lord Brady claimed he said: “I think backbench MPs have been contemptible! They have been spineless chicken shit. They need to develop some backbone.”
He said when he told Mr Johnson “no sane person would drive their wife and small child 30 miles to test his eyesight”, the then PM replied: “He’s not sane.” Lord Brady added that Mr Johnson repeatedly railed against anti-Covid measures, including criticising the “stupid fucking two-metre rule” and “fucking scientists”.
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