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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Pippa Crerar Political editor

Boris Johnson called his allies ‘The Munsters’, new book alleges

Boris Johnson – seen spotlit and gesturing against a black background – delivers his Brexit speech to the Conservative Home meeting, Birmingham, October 2018
Boris Johnson also joked that he had ‘cornered the market in sex pests’ among his supporters, according to Ben Riley-Smith’s book. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Boris Johnson described his political allies as “The Munsters” and regularly hummed the Addams Family theme tune while discussing them after he quit as foreign secretary over Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal, it has been claimed.

The former prime minister, who had returned to the Conservative back benches in July 2018, also joked that he had “cornered the market in sex pests” among his supporters, according to a book by the Telegraph’s political editor, Ben Riley-Smith.

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