Esta é Carrie Symonds,31 anos de idade, a actual companheira
de Boris Johnson (duas vezes divorciado e seis filhos) com a qual ele teve
tamanha discussão no apartamento que partilham, que os vizinhos temeram pela
vida de ambos, chamando a polícia.
Segundo o Guardian, está aberta a discussão sobre a
estabilidade e características fundamentais do carácter de Boris, afim de que
possa garantir estar à altura das altas responsabilidades e da gravidade
decisiva dos desafios que o esperam, como líder do Partido Conservador e
Primeiro Ministro.
A question of character? Boris Johnson by those who know him
Concerns over Johnson’s private life and fitness for office
have lingered since he became a politician
Guardian staff
Sat 22 Jun 2019 14.17 BST Last modified on Sat 22 Jun 2019
14.35 BST
After the Guardian reported that police were called to Boris
Johnson’s home after neighbours heard an altercation with his girlfriend Carrie
Symonds, questions were again raised about the would-be Conservative leader’s
character.
Ever since he became a politician, there have been questions
over Johnson’s colourful private life – though he has had as many enthusiastic
cheerleaders, who argue that his flaws pale in comparison to his charismatic
appeal to the public.
Johnson has sought to downplay concerns over his past
behaviour in his few media appearances during the campaign to date, referring
to one journalist’s question listing concerns that he was untrustworthy as a
“great minestrone of observations”.
But over the years, many of those who have known him well
have questioned his suitability for high office:
“Boris, well, he’s the life and soul of the party but he’s
not the man you want driving you home at the end of the evening.”
Cabinet minister Amber Rudd, speaking during a 2016 debate
before the Brexit referendum
“It is a common mistake to suppose Johnson a nice man. In
reality he often behaves unpleasantly.”
Max Hastings, Johnson’s editor at the Daily Telegraph, in a
2018 column for the Times
“[He is] much diminished in terms of integrity, in terms of
political courage and in terms of credibility … I used to think he would be
fantastic at Number 10 but those days look a long time ago.”
2018 BBC interview with Guto Harri, director of
communications for Johnson’s mayoral administration, 2008-2012
“I wanted to help
build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving
the European Union could lead us to a better future. But I have come,
reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris cannot provide the leadership or
build the team for the task ahead.”
Michael Gove, launching the leadership bid that derailed
Johnson’s attempt to become prime minister in 2016
“[Johnson is] a man who waits to see the way the crowd is
running and then dashes in front and says, ‘Follow me’.”
Michael Heseltine, Good Morning Britain interview in 2018
“The Johnsonian creed [is] that it is, in his own words,
acceptable, sometimes desirable to lie. Certainly that approach has been
advantageous to him. But it must come at a price.”
Sonia Purnell, Johnson’s biographer and one-time deputy in
the Telegraph’s Brussels bureau, writing after he withdrew from the leadership
race in 2016
“He’s lied his way through life, he’s lied his way through
politics, he’s a huckster with a degree of charm to which I am immune. As well
as being mendacious he’s incompetent.”
Conservative former minister Chris Patten in May interview
with Bloomberg
“I’m afraid he’s shown, especially during his period as
foreign secretary, that he doesn’t have the necessary skills and capacity [to
be leader].”
Conservative MP and former attorney general Dominic Grieve
in May interview with LBC
“He’s an enormous character but not a team player … And he
doesn’t know if he’s a journalist or a politician, but he does know it’s all
about him. The more he repeats what everyone can see is not credible, the more
his own credibility disappears.”
Former foreign office colleague Sir Alan Duncan, 2018
interview with the Times
“The worst Foreign Secretary we’ve ever had ...
Disinterested and out of his depth he cared nothing for our situation. Good
riddance.”
John McKendrick, attorney general of Anguilla, bidding
farewell to Johnson as foreign secretary with criticism of his response to the
British Overseas Territory’s devastation during Hurricane Irma in 2017
“I think he honestly believes it is churlish of us not to
regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation
which binds everyone else.”
Johnson’s Eton housemaster, Martin Hammond, in 1982 school
report
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