Former aide likens Boris Johnson’s exit to storming of Capitol

Cleo Watson also says ex-PM had to be house-trained' and that he compared her to an ugly old lamp'

Boris Johnson's reluctance to leave Downing Street in the face of opposition from ministers and Tory MPs seemed a bit let's storm the Capitol, chaps," according to a former senior No 10 aide, likening it to the January 6 insurrection in Washington DC.

The comparison was made by Cleo Watson, a former special adviser to Johnson's former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, in an article for Tatler magazine.