Politics

Boris gets special Scottish farewell during final PMQs

Boris Johnson was treated to a special Scottish farewell during his final Prime Minister’s Questions.

The outgoing Conservative leader ignored pleas to keep things civil in his last Commons outing.

Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle urged MPs to conduct PMQs in a manner “focusing on issues and policies rather than personalities”.

But Johnson decided to brand opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer a “great pointless human bollard” from the outset.

That set the tone for the rest of the session, with Sir Keir saying the Tories have “trashed every part of their record in Government”.

“What message does it send when the candidates to be prime minister can’t find a single decent thing to say about him, about each other or their record in Government?”, he said.

The SNP’s Ian Blackford followed shortly after, describing Johnson as “shameful, disgraceful and a waste of Scotland’s time.”

Watch his brutal assault below:

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Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

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