Outrage as Lib Dem leadership hopeful calls for Remainers to ‘decapitate’ Boris in election
FORMER Cabinet Minister Ed Davey sparked uproar today by calling on Remainers to “decapitate the blond head” of Boris Johnson.
The Lib Dem leadership contender – knighted in 2016 – said anti-Brexit parties should unite to contest Boris’ Uxbridge seat in any snap election.
He said: “I hereby float the idea of a Remain alliance to decapitate that blond head in Uxbridge and South Ruislip if Johnson calls a snap election to deliver Brexit.”
MPs immediately slammed the ex-Coalition Minister – saying it defied belief given the recent third anniversary of the murder of Labour’s Jo Cox.
Sir Edward was forced to issue a grovelling apology and clarified that “in no way literally” did he want to decapitate Boris Johnson.
Taking to social media, he said: “This was careless use of language, meant in an electoral sense.
“I recognise this wasn't an acceptable choice of phrase and I’m sorry.”
Henry Smith MP branded his language "appalling" and "desperate".
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THE derision heaped on Theresa May by the EU and its Remainer cheerleaders was only an aperitif to the all-out war now being waged against Boris Johnson.
Mrs May was at least one of them — a europhile reluctantly doing her duty.
Boris was the face of Brexit. He believes in it. He intends, if made PM, to deliver it “do or die, come what may”. To Remain diehards that makes him a monster.
Brussels, predictably, mocks him. It says his Brexit plan is ludicrous. Except the EU IS finally now taking the threat of No Deal seriously and ordering Ireland to detail its emergency plans.
And what is Brussels’ own strategy? To insist we swallow Mrs May’s dodgy deal, overwhelmingly rejected three times? That’s the definition of madness.
But eurocrat loathing of Boris is nothing compared with that of our political and media Remoaners. “Sir” Ed Davey, the dismal Lib-Dem ex-Cabinet minister, wants to politically “decapitate” him . . . a vile phrase in this volatile climate.
No Deal is dangerous, Davey says — so here’s his alternative: have the Queen simply cancel Brexit. Yes, a monstrous constitutional and democratic outrage, triggering chaos, disorder and division.
But Boris is the crazy one, remember.
Brexit had already made fools of formerly moderate MPs and once-impartial media figures. Boris reduces them all to frothing, incoherent balls of rage.
If he becomes PM we fear for their sanity.
And Lib Dem leadership rival Jo Swinson publicly rebuked her colleague – saying it was “wrong in the current climate”.
She said: “Boris will be a disaster for this country but we can make that case without resorting to violent language.”
Critics hit back that she branded the UK “racist” days ago over Brexit.
Boris is sitting on a wafer thin majority of 5,034 in Uxbridge. His majority would be the lowest of any standing PM since 1924 if he enters No.10.
Mr Davey said anti-Brexit parties should team up and ask Labour to stand their own candidate down in the constituency to kick Boris out of the Commons if an election is called.
A spokesman for the Team Boris campaign refused to be drawn. But one insider said: “It’s not the sort of language you’d expect from a knight of the realm.”
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Anna Soubry – the Change UK MP who suffered death threats earlier this year – demanded Ed Davey “withdraw” the language.
She said: “We need leaders who use mature and responsible words if we are to build alliances, fix our broken politics and restore faith in politicians.”
Ex-Tory Minister Tracey Crouch stormed: “Ed Davey should be pretty ashamed of himself.”
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