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Macron Privately Called Boris Johnson ‘Clown’- Reports


Thu 02 Dec 2021 | 10:29 PM
Omnia Ahmed

France's President Emmanuel Macron called British Prime Minister Boris Johnson a “clown” in a private conversation, French reports revealed on Thursday.

The political magazine Le Canard enchaîné, often described as the French equivalent of Private Eye, reported Macron as saying the prime minister has “the attitude of a vulgarian”.

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This comes following Macron's complaint about Johnson’s behaviour after the leaders spoke by phone after last Wednesday’s sinking of a refugee boat in the Channel.

“I spoke two days ago with prime minister Johnson in a serious way,” Macron said at a press conference on Friday after the tweet. “For my part, I continue to do that, as I do with all countries and all leaders. I am surprised by methods when they are not serious. We do not communicate from one leader to another on these issues by tweets and letters that we make public.”

Nevertheless, the president was still fuming in anger in private as he said: “BoJo talks to me at full speed, everything is going fine, we have discussions like big people, and then he gives us a hard time before or afterwards in an inelegant way. It’s always the same circus.”

Macron informed his advisers that Johnson apologized privately for making France a scapegoat publicly over issues such as the Channel crossings and the “sausage war”, according to the magazine.

He said: “It is sad to see a major country with which we could do huge numbers of things being led by a clown.”

Last week, the prime minister affirmed that he does not regret publishing a letter to the French President on Twitter after he accused him of failing to take the migrant crisis “seriously”, Downing Street insisted on Friday.