Boris fury: PM erupts in brutal outburst as he attacks SNP's Sturgeon in foul mouthed rant
BORIS JOHNSON launched a sensational rant at Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon during a tense meeting at a climate summit in Glasgow, it has been claimed.
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Tensions have bubbled between Downing Street and Holyrood for years, several issues having angered both leaders. This time round, it has been claimed that Boris Johnson, during a climate summit in Glasgow, called Scotland’s First Minister a “Wee Jimmy Krankie woman”.
The name-calling came amid difficulties in planning the summit with Scotland’s government.
The summit’s former boss, Claire Perry O’Neil, suggested Mr Johnson offer Ms Sturgeon a formal role to stop her Scottish National Party from wrecking the event.
According to The Sun, Mr Johnson replied: “Over my f**king dead body.
“I’m not being driven out of Scotland by that bloody Wee Jimmy Krankie woman.”
It was a reference to the 1980s Scottish comedy act, The Krankies, in which Janette Tough, 72, played schoolboy Jimmy.
The series also starred Ms Tough’s husband, Ian, 72.
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Ms Perry O’Neill, who was recently fired by Downing Street as president of the COP26 climate summit, made a public reference to the incident earlier this week.
She told The Sun: “It was an extraordinary reaction from the Prime Minister, and not how many of us thought he should handle the Nicola Sturgeon problem at all”.
The fresh accusation coincides with Ms Sturgeon’s writing a letter to Mr Johnson to push him for answers over COP26.
And, at the same time, the SNP were forced to deny the Scottish government were intentionally making the summit’s logistics difficult.
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For example, that Holyrood had to deny certain actions, like booking buildings on the summit’s planned site for other purposes.
Downing Street denies the allegations made against the Prime Minister.
But, a No 10 source acknowledged that Boris did express “strong views about the first minister’s official role”.
These views, according to the source, included strong swear words.
The summit was dealt yet another bow when it emerged two former Tory leaders had refused to run it - David Cameron and William Hague.
Mr Cameron dubbed it “an honour to be asked” to do the job.
But, he said: “I think it’s best in these situations if you have a Government minister doing the job; you then have one line of command rather than, perhaps, two people doing the same thing”.
The spat is yet another in a long line of disagreements, the most recent being Mr Johnson’s refuel to allow Ms Sturgeon another Scottish independence referendum.
Scots were granted a vote on whether to leave the United Kingdom and become an independent state in 2014.
The “NO” vote won with nearly 300,000 more votes - failing to reach the target to win.
Ms Sturgeon now wants another independence referendum for Scotland in the latter half of the year, arguing that Brexit has changed the usual circumstances in which votes are issued.
Scotland overwhelmingly voted to remain a part of the EU, with many making the point that it makes no sense for Scotland to remain a part of the UK as it leaves the EU.