Reactions to Laura Kuenssberg’s article about PM’s relationship with truth without using any examples

Does Boris Johnson lie? It would be hard to find many people who would deny he, at the very least, stretches the truth.

Well Laura Kuenssberg, BBC’s Political Editor, has written an article with the headline “Boris Johnson: What is the PM’s relationship with the truth?”

She comes under a lot of attacks, especially from the left. Laura is seen by many of that political persuasion as a supporter of the Government or at least biased against the views of people who would consider themselves Corbynites.

So does this article put all those accusations to bed? Well, no, not really.

Kuenssberg doesn’t mention any actual examples of the PM lying, but quotes various sources broadly discussing the PM’s general manner.

It wouldn’t be a stretch to assume people wanted real world examples, perhaps ones we don’t already know.

For example she writes: “Some of his allies cite this desire to argue things backwards and forwards before reaching a decision as a strength, saying: “He challenges organisations and conventional wisdom.”

“Others have a more straightforward explanation.

“He is just sometimes unable to face the truth because he doesn’t like making hard decisions,” says one insider. Another says: “You are never sure what the real truth of a situation is.”

At one point she says that he has been compared to Steve Jobs.

“One former colleague compares him to the late Steve Jobs, the hard-driving founder of tech giant Apple,” she writes.

Another one of the PM’s former workmates also stuck up for him.

“Mr Johnson’s former colleague told me: “Is there wilful lying? I would struggle to point to a direct example.“

She ends the article with…

“But as one of the few people who genuinely knows Boris Johnson once told me, he is a politician who above all, wants to be loved.”