You couldn’t make it up but they could…
After the almost lazy disavowals, it was confirmed that The Times newspaper did remove a damaging story about Boris Johnson attempting to have Carrie Symonds (the future Mrs Johnson) appointed to the powerful and lucrative post of his chief of staff in 2018.
Johnson was Foreign Secretary at the time. Those able to follow the spaghetti will recall it was as Foreign Secretary that he pissed all over the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe situation, carelessly making it much worse than it already was. Making things much worse than they already are is Boris Johnson's super power.
The withdrawal of The Times story was, despite denials, a
decision made following direct pressure from Downing Street proving that Johnson isn't just an inveterate liar - he breeds lies.
In summary…
The disappearing Tory story
A saga of deceit so hoary
It creates no big furore,
Truth lies bleeding, sadly gory
More falsehoods for Jackanory
And when all is said and done
This aint no land of hope and glory
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Life truly is a Soap Opera !