Another BoJo denial exposed and more US interference in UK politics.
2018. Boris Johnson dismissed any association with Steve Bannon, calling the theory a “lefty delusion whose spores continue to breed in the Twittersphere”. Steve Bannon is Donald Trump's former adviser who quit in August 2017.
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Mr Bannon, who helped propel Mr Trump into the White House, disclosed that he offered advice by text message ahead of Mr Johnson’s resignation speech in the House of Commons on July 18 2018...
The Klayman clip, obtained by The Observer newspaper, shows Mr Bannon reading a Daily Telegraph article about Mr Johnson’s resignation speech. “Today we are going to see if Boris Johnson tries to overthrow the British government. He’s going to give a speech in the Commons,” Mr Bannon told the director. “I’ve been talking to him all weekend about this speech. We went back and forth over the text.”
Mr Bannon said he had got to know Mr Johnson during the transition period after Mr Trump’s election victory. He had been urging the foreign secretary to give a repeat of his “important” speech in the final hours of the Leave campaign in June 2016....
On Sunday a spokesman said it would be reasonable for a foreign secretary and a chief of staff to the US president to communicate. However, the text messages occurred nearly a year after Mr Bannon had quit the White House in August 2017.
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