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Lord Heseltine, the former Deputy Prime Minster has accused Boris Johnson of having "ripped the Tory Party apart" and creating "the greatest constitutional crisis in peacetime in my life".

The Conservative grandee who stood against Margaret Thatcher in the 1990 Conservative Party leadership contest and was seen as being largely responsible for her subsequent resignation went onto add that; "he's like a General who marches his army to the sound of guns and the moment he sees the battleground he abandons it.

"I have never seen anything like it and he must be answerable for the consequences".

One source close to Boris pinned the blame firmly on Michael Gove, suggesting that the leaked email was deliberated. The source said: "Michael Gove is a tremendous s**t.

Boris Johnson's father has likened Michael Gove to the assassins who murdered Julius Caesar.

Asked about Mr Gove's brutal attack which knocked his son out of the Tory leadership race, Stanley Johnson quoted Caesar's supposed last words after he was stabbed by his former friend Brutus.

"'Es tu Brute' is my comment on that," he told BBC Radio 4's The World at One. "I don't think he is called Brutus, but you never know."

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