Boris Johnson was branded a professional liar in the House of Commons today, in a dramatic PMQs moment.
Tory MPs screamed with fury as SNP Westminster Leader Ian Blackford told MPs the former Foreign Secretary had “built a career out of lying.”
Skirting Commons rules, Mr Blackford, which consider questioning the honesty of MPs ‘unparliamentary’, Mr Blackford said: “The PM is showing gross cowardice.”
He said: “On the one hand the Tories are asking people to put their faith in the most incompetent Foreign Secretary in a century.
“A man who has made a career out of lying. Who has spent his week avoiding the media, staging photos and playing to the extreme delusions of the Tory shires.”
Turning his fire on Jeremy Hunt , he said: “On the other hand we have the most incompetent Health Secretary in our history. A man who writes books on privatising our NHS. “
As the noise of angry Conservatives threatened to drown him out, he added: “Mr Speaker, the Tories clearly don’t like the truth.”
He went on to urge Mrs May to admit that neither candidate should ever be elected Prime Minister.
She declined to do so, saying: “Either of the candidates for this high office would do a darn sight better job than anyone sitting on those benches.”
It’s the second week in a row that Mr Blackford has used PMQs to hurl insults at Johnson.
Last week he told the Commons: “not only is [Mr Johnson] racist, he is stoking division in communities and has a record of dishonesty”.
