Boris Johnson called David Cameron a ‘girly swot’ in leaked cabinet papers.
The insult was included in documents written by hand by the Prime Minister which were released in partially redacted form by a court on Thursday.
The full, uncensored version has now been leaked and published by Sky News .
“The whole September session is a rigmarole induced by girly swot Cameron to show the public how MPs were earning their crust,” Mr Johnson wrote in scrawled script.
Until today the “by girly swot Cameron” part had been blocked out.
The note was written on August 16 and was made in response to a senior aide’s case for sending MPs away for five weeks.
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Reuters correspondent David Ljunggren helped explain what a ‘swot’ is for those unfamiliar with the Bash Street Kids era term.
It is unclear why the short phrase was removed from the documents, with the most obvious reason being to minimise political embarrasment.
Channel 4 News anchor Krishnan Guru-Murphy questioned whether it was appropriate for something not of a classified nature to be redacted.
The leaked documents are likely to put the spotlight on the relationship between the current and former Conservative prime ministers.
The two politicians have always been viewed in the same lens, with both having attended Eton school at the same time.
They would go on to spend formative years together at Oxford University’s highly exclusive drinking society The Bullingdon Club.
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It is also likely to raise questions about how seriously Mr Johnson is taking the job at the end of a difficult week for the Prime Minister.
Yesterday he arrived close to an hour late for a speech about policing, which quickly turned into an general election bid.
His tardiness was blamed for the fact a female police officer behind him almost fainted.
Minutes before Mr Johnson had gone off script to riff about police officers reading suspects their rights.
