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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Kevin Maguire

'Boris Johnson's Ukraine threats are just a feeble Trump card'

As he helps the police with their enquiries into law-breaking lockdown parties while issuing blood-curdling threats to Russia over Ukraine, Boris Johnson shows he is prepared to destroy others to save himself.

The lying, unprincipled, selfish Prime Minister’s scorched earth policy is a potent danger to the prosperity, safety and decency of Great Britain.

Conservative MPs muttering that Ukraine could be Johnson’s Falklands, and Putin his Galtieri, should stick it up their junta.

A diversionary war to distract from boozy bashes would end in Wag the Dog bloodshed to Save Big Dog.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace’s “whiff of Munich” blunder echoes the amoral hopes of Downing Street that French President Emmanuel Macron’s diplomatic initiative fails to avoid embarrassing a Boris Johnson who is shouting, ignored, on the sidelines.

On the home front, the PM’s double-dealing is crystallising after No10 dogsbody Stephen Barclay declared the Conservative mission was to reduce the size of the state.

OK, what are they going to cut: health, education, social care, policing, transport, local government, housing and the environment? Do tell, voters deserve to know. Particularly in red wall seats.

Because levelling down, worsening lives, is the reality of Conservative cuts.

Emerging from Covid, the PM lifts all remaining restrictions, pandering to lockdown-sceptic Conservative MPs who might write letters calling for him to go rather than doing what is best for England or Britain.

As he hunkers down with lawyers filling out his partygate questionnaire, the Johnson machine seeks to intimidate police officers doing their duty, while a senior ally demands a Get Out of Jail Free card for a PM who thinks he should be above the law.

Democracy is corroded by a shameless British Trump who will stop at nothing to survive. And that is why he must be removed from office.

Tinpot tyrants are a threat to our prosperity, safety and decency.

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