"Much as Boris is not prone to getting really cross, nor using particularly strong language, this was one [time] where he really flipped. At our morning meeting, with a small gang of us, he just launched into a violent attack on Emmanuel Macron. And basically saying: "He’s a four-letter word that begins with 'c'’, he's a weirdo, he's Putin's lickspittle, we need to go studs up on this one" – a rugby term that basically means gloves off - "we need an orgy of frog-bashing, I’m going to have to punch his lights out"... Pretty strong stuff."
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From Unprecedented (second LBC podcast in a series) by Guto Harri, as cited in "Boris Johnson's foul-mouthed tirade about 'lickspittle' Emmanuel Macron" The Telegraph (18 May 2023). Johnson is reported not to accept the veracity of this account. In "Humour secured his bond with Zelensky" The Times (18 May 2023)), Harri wrote that Johnson did not carry out his threat.
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Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, journalist, and popular historian. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from July 2019 until September 2022.
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