Boris Johnson’s sister has revealed the full extent of family feud after she decided to join the Liberal Democrats
Rachel Johnson said that her parents were furious with her decision to join the Lib Dems
Boris Johnson’s sister revealed the full extent of the family feud over her defection to the Lib Dems yesterday.
Rachel Johnson said her Foreign Secretary brother made it “quite clear he thought I’d lost my last remaining marble” when she confessed she was now a paid-up member of the rival party - the main threat to the Tories in June’s General Election.
The turncoat signed up as a Lib Dem last week in a bid to slam the brakes on a Hard Brexit - despite two of her brothers Boris and Jo serving as ministers in the Tory government.
She revealed she was startled to find her parents angry at her decision, saying: “My mother and my father are about the two people left in my life whose eyes I can do no wrong.”
And she refused to rule out standing for election as a Lib Dem candidate in the future - although she joined too late for this election.
She told BBC’s Andrew Marr Show: “I’m not ruling anything in or out.”
Ms Johnson campaigned for Remain in last June’s EU referendum - along with science minister Jo and her father and ex-MEP Stanley Johnson. It left the family divided as Boris became the figurehead for Brexit.
Excited Lib Dems even said she could become the second member of the Johnson family to be elected as London Mayor.
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Ms Johnson explained that she had joined the lib Dems ahead of the June 8 vote because it is a “single issue election” over Brexit. In a withering attack yesterday she branded Britain’s vote to leave as “a suicide mission”.
She launched a blistering broadside on Brexiteers - which include her brother Boris - accusing them of selling “faulty goods” over their broken promises on Europe.
In a highly personal attack on her brother she highlighted how Britain was now “behind the EU” for a trade deal with the US - despite her brother
Boris insisting earlier this year that we were “first in line”.
And she also tore into Brexit supporters over their promise of £350million in funding for the NHS after Britain cuts ties with Brussels.
Explaining why she joined the Lib Dems, she said: “I wanted to stand up and be counted in my continuing opposition to what I’ve always thought is a suicide mission to take us out of Europe and over a cliff.” [ooyala code="BoZ3g4dDov3WLcWnZmh_JWRJApU4BGku" player_id="NDcyOWI0M2YyMDdkN2YwODU5Mzc5MDUz" width="768" height="432" caption="Marr in the Minute: BoJo's sister, cuts and a drunk bluebottle" auto="true"]