Boris Johnson interview highlights: From the 'worst PM in history' clash to 'loopy' Brexit.Source: Boris Johnson: The Interview, ITV / The Camilla Tominey Show, GB News
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00:00Anthony Seldon, who I guess you would call more or less the sort of official biographer of prime ministers, says you're the worst prime minister in British history.
00:08In the whole of history, I mean, arguably from when the office was reformed after George, but that was the allegation, worse than trust, worse than anyone.
00:17What do you say?
00:17Well, I think I don't know this guy very well, but I think that's complete nonsense.
00:22I think that you will find a pretty extraordinary story that we packed in to three years.
00:29People are agonisingly observe the rules.
00:31You have told us that people will die if we don't observe the rules, and here is your private secretary writing to over 100 people, inviting them to a party in the Downing Street Garden.
00:41Sorry, hang on a second.
00:42People can't understand why you wouldn't be paralytically apologetic about that.
00:48Because, and actually, I was at the time, if you remember what happened.
00:52But now you're saying, oh, it wasn't a big deal, I shouldn't have appointed.
00:55If you look at what, if you, the reason the Downing Street Garden was used was because it was thought to be a much safer environment and we had to maintain distance.
01:06Is your political career over?
01:08Look, I'm very, very glad you asked that because I'm living a life of blameless obscurity and rustic obscurity.
01:17Blameless obscurity here in a television studio in front of millions.
01:20Writing, writing, writing books.
01:22And my chances of returning to politics, as I think I've said before, about as good as my being reincarnated as an olive blinded by a champagne called locked in a disused fridge or decapitated by a Frisbee.
01:35But in any case, the answer to your question is to be found in the pages, the 738 pages of Unleashed, which is now Unleashed.
01:45I think I'll take that as a return is, is, is where is Unleashed?
01:52So, so, yes, so, yes, if you ask me, if you really push me to say, was it all a terrible mistake to kick me out?
01:59Yes, I think it was.
02:00But was that what you said?
02:01I think he was a goof.
02:02And yes, I think he was badly advised, badly advised, badly advised.
02:05I think he was I think he was.
02:07Well, what role did he play in your downfall?
02:09The role of the, you know, one of the sick, one of the, you know, he, he, he, he was a close colleague and friend who turned on me at a particularly critical time.
02:27And and I thought it was a mistake.
02:29It was it was worse than a crime.
02:30It was a mistake.
02:31And so it proved you think you're misunderstood.
02:35And I think on the contrary, I think it probably like I'm all too well understood.
02:38Really?
02:38Yeah, I think so.
02:39When people criticize you as a buffoon, another regular criticism is that you're a pathological liar.
02:46Do you have a problem with the truth?
02:48No, I think that on the contrary, I think that what people are very the reason people get so angry, I think this is you've got to forgive me, because it is my view.
02:57Right. I think that a lot of very clever people were driven potty by Brexit.
03:05And they couldn't believe that their arguments, which they thought were better, had been defeated in the course of that referendum campaign.