Sylvie Bermann, France’s UK ambassador during Brexit vote, assesses PM’s pandemic handling alongside Donald Trump

Boris Johnson is “an unrepentant and inveterate liar” who feels he not subject to the same rules as others, Sylvie Bermann, the former French ambassador to the UK during the Brexit vote has said in a new book.

She also claims some Brexiters are consumed with hatred for Germany and gripped by a myth that they liberated Europe on their own, describing Brexit as a triumph of emotion over reason, won by a campaign full of lies in which negative attitudes to migration were exploited by figures such as Johnson and Michael Gove.

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