Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to become Britain’s next prime minister, has come under scrutiny for his ties to Steve Bannon, the controversial former adviser to US President Donald Trump.
Footage published by the Observer on Saturday showed Bannon claiming that he had helped craft Johnson’s resignation speech as foreign minister last year.
Bannon said that he “met Boris Johnson… years ago,” but had “got to know him quite well” after Trump’s election victory in 2016.
The pair got to know each other professionally when both were in office and were reported to have met again in an unofficial capacity last summer.
Johnson had said at the time that “the so-called relationship” with Bannon was a “lefty delusion” and his office dismissed the latest claims of a working relationship as “totally preposterous to the point of a conspiracy”.
@DavidLammy on Twitter said:
When I called out @BorisJohnson's links with hard right, white supremacist Steve Bannon in April, Johnson branded it a "Lefty delusion". Here is proof on tape. Steve Bannon helped write your resignation speech. You are a pathological liar, unfit to serve.
https://twitter.com/DavidLammy/status/1142694311647203328
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/22/video-reveals-steve-bannon-links-to-boris-johnson
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/6/23/boris-johnsons-ties-to-steve-bannon-revealed