Now that there’s a Foreign Office civil war within the wider Conservative civil war, the blond ambition Boris Johnson is fighting on two fronts. The over-indulged Dudley Dursley of Tory Towers blames the dinky deputy Alan Duncan for a string of character assassinations portraying BoJo (accurately, which is why it must hurt so much) as an incompetent clown ridiculed around the globe and both a national and international embarrassment.
Nobody takes themselves more seriously than jittery Johnson and I’m told that the Foreign Secretary confronted chatty Duncan, who theatrically denied this most heinous of charges. That the public assaults on Johnson simultaneously hailed Duncan, the Europe minister, as a political titan holding the Foreign Office together, must be a remarkable coincidence.
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