Guto Harri: fingers point to PM’s ‘gaffe-prone’ comms chief after downfall

After Boris Johnson's resignation, critics keen to lay blame at door of too casual' communications director

When he walked into Downing Street five months ago as Boris Johnson's communications director, Guto Harri drew attention to himself with an interview that branded his new boss as not a complete clown".

Now, in the postmortem and recriminations that inevitably follow any prime minister's downfall, fingers are pointing at Harri over a tenure some describe as almost as gaffe-prone as that of his boss.