Knifed in the back by sharp history lesson
Ouch, that’s really one in the back.
That Leo Amery quote gets trotted out from time to time.
You can expect it from the opposition benches. But David Davis’s use was true to the original spirit – a devastating blow from a Tory backbencher, directed at a Tory Prime Minister.
David Davis is a former chairman of the Conservative Party, a former Tory leadership candidate, a former Brexit secretary.
“Like many on these benches I have spent weeks and months defending the Prime Minister against often angry constitutents and reminded them of his success in delivering Brexit, and vaccines, and many other things,” he began ominously at Prime Minister’s Questions.
“I expect my leaders to shoulder the responsibility for the actions they take. Yesterday he did the opposite of that. I will remind him of a quotation which will only be too familiar to him, of Leo Amery to Neville Chamberlain. ‘You have sat there too long for all the good you have done. In the name of God, go’.”
And until then it had been going all so well, relatively speaking, for Boris Johnson.
