Johnson likened to Neville Chamberlain as Tory says: ‘In the name of God, go’
David Davis quoted from a speech delivered in the Commons during the Norway Debate.
Boris Johnson faced comparisons with Neville Chamberlain as he was urged by a former Cabinet minister to quit.
The Prime Minister, a biographer of Winston Churchill, would have fully understood the implication of David Davis’ comments in the Commons – even if he insisted he did not know what the former minister was talking about.
Mr Davis quoted from a speech delivered in the Commons during the Norway Debate on the conduct of the Second World War, which ultimately led to Mr Chamberlain resigning as prime minister.
Mr Amery said: “This is what Cromwell said to the Long Parliament when he thought it was no longer fit to conduct the affairs of the nation: You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go. ”
“Yesterday he did the opposite of that.
“So, I will remind him of a quotation which may be familiar to his ear: Leopold Amery to Neville Chamberlain.
“You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, go.”
The Prime Minister replied: “I must say to him, I don’t know what he is talking about.
“What I can tell him, I don’t know what quotation he is alluding to, what I can tell him is and I think have told this House repeatedly, I take full responsibility for everything done in this Government and throughout the pandemic.”
