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Former Prime Minister and ‘good friend’ of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson slammed veteren journalist Emily Maitlis this night because the pair locked horns over the formers relationship with the previous president. He stated that her line of questionning relating him to Donald Trump was “sloppy” and “dangerous”.

It all kicked off when Emily probed former grownup star Stormy Daniels over her expertise with the Apprentice star and potential threats she had confronted after talking out over her time with Trump.

She stated: “Stormy you wore a stab vest in court when you had to testify didn’t you? Where you protected?”

Stormy replied: “Oh a bullet proof vest? I get all kinds of crazy threats all the time but sometimes one will stand out more than the others and it’s not always the most violent or graphic one.”

As she was speaking, Emily observed that Boris gave the impression to be shaking his head. Saying: “Mr Johnson you’re kind of shaking your head, but this is coming from a man you’ve described as a friend.”

“No not at all, I wasn’t shaking my head at all,” he retorted.

Correcting herself, Emily added: “No you’re shaking your head in what I’m assuming is sorrow, in sympathy, and it’s all very well directing him in foreign policy and telling him how he can sort out Ukraine, this is the man that people like Stormy Daniels are dealing with.”

Mr Johnson was eager to specific his sympathy and perception for Stormy’s story, he stated: “Let me first say that I think anyone watching this will have immense sympathy for Stormy.

“Everything that you simply really feel and have been going by means of. Nobody needs to be threatened or really feel threatened as a part of the democratic course of.

“And I’m afraid I don’t know the ins and outs of much of what’s happened. What I can say, the area in which I can speak with authority is about the foreign policy relationship.”

Not satiated by Boris’s reply the pair continued talking over one another.

Emily stated: “We’re gonna put foreign policy aside and talk about character. There’s no reason why you wouldn’t know Stormy Daniels story because it’s been absolutely public for years.

“She’s described the character of the person and the way his followers react to any person like her.”

But Boris refused to back down.

“And I perceive that, however you see the job within the UK of the Prime Minister is to have a very good shut relationship, friendship with whoever is within the White House and it needs to be operational and it did work,” he said.

Stormy jumped in, asking Boris, 60, if he would want the females close to him alone with Mr Trump.

She asked: “So if you happen to’re the Prime Minister and also you and Donald Trump bought right into a disagreement as folks do with Donald Trump whether or not you are proper or flawed. Would you might have any worry for the women in your life? How do you’re feeling about doxxing?”

Boris replied: “Nothing like that got here up.”

“You would not be frightened that that may occur to your daughters or sisters?” Stormy pressed.

But Boris stood fast. He explained: “When you are speaking to the US President, the connection you might have because the Prime Minister, is one in all nice formality and significance and naturally you develop a friendship however really and I can say this with all sincerity, in my time with him I by no means was handled with something apart from full courteous and friendliness. Now you had a really totally different expertise however I can solely discuss my expertise.”

Emily jumped back in asking: “But the query for lots of our viewers tonight can be whether or not, you basically began importing a few of that Trump like behaviour into Britain while you have been Prime Minister. His disregard for establishments, his disregard for the rule of legislation, his denialism, which I feel was mirrored in your response to the privaleges commity, your response to the Parliamentary requirements commity, your peroging of Parliament, that is all Trump like behaviour.”

“Well there I clearly disagree profoundly as I element within the ebook Unleashed,” Boris replied with a scoff.

But Emily did not respond well to his jokey attempt to push his new book. Saying: “I do not know why it is humorous, as a result of I’ve simply requested you what he is like as a personality.”

It was here that Boris said that he found the line of questionning “sloppy” and “harmful”.

He said sternly: “Well no as a result of I do not settle for your analogy in any respect and I feel it’s extremely sloppy and harmful to make analogies between the US and the UK in that form of means.”

Lead presenter at Channel 4, Krishnan Guru-Mury, 54, jumped in asking: “You did not mannequin your self on him in any respect?”

Boris skirted over his question, adding: “And I feel folks evaluate Brexit with the appearance of Donald Trump. Brexit was really supported by folks throughout the political spectrum.”

“You’re not answering the query. Just return to the query.” Responded Emily, 54.

Boris said: “I’m answering the query immediately. I consider in my administration we had full respect for establishments. We had respect for the choice of the British folks to depart the European Union. And in contrast to many individuals within the UK institution who wished to thwart that,we have been decided to go forward and ship it. As we promised.”

“But you did not respect the Parlimentary Commitee and misled the Privaleges Committee. That’s not respect.” Said Krishnan.

Boris replied: “17.4 million folks voted for us to ship it and we did.”

Emily shot back in the eternal tennis match of wills: “I do not know why you are speaking about Brexit as a result of you already know precisely what we’re speaking about.”

To which Boris hit back: “Because you are speaking about an analogy which I reject between the US and the UK.”

Emily continued: “No, we’re speaking concerning the Owen Patterson affair the place he was discovered to have damaged requirements legislation by I feel it was Kathleen Stone and also you rejected that and then you definitely rejected that. You quoted folks saying it is a Kangaroo court docket.”

“If you learn unleashed you will notice I put my fingers as much as that I feel we made a mistake we took the flawed [sic] after which we then corrected it.” He replied.

“But my sturdy perception while you discuss partygate, while you discuss what occurred within the covid pandemic. I occur to assume the UK authorities did an impressive job.”

But Emily reaffirmed that the discussion was “nothing to do with that” and was about how Boris responded to institution” she stated that it was “people calling out your [Boris’s] lies that’s what this is about.”

Boris bounced again saying that he “rejected that”. “Here you all are,” he stated,”Here’s Channel 4 News run by Ian Katz sitting here doing the same old stunt that you tried in 2004 where you’re taking a massively asked approach to a US election.”

“I’m asking you to account for your actions.” Emily stated.

Boris identified that he was “not standing for election here”.

Bringing the dialog again round to Donald’s character Stormy requested the Conservative: “Do you have children? Would you leave your daughter alone with Donald Trump?”

“Well I don’t see why not.” He replied.

Krishnan stated: “So you would?”

“Yes I would. My experience with Donald Trump, I hear what you’re saying, maybe I’m wrong, but he has been courteous, he has been polite.” He replied.

Emily was not proud of this reponse, saying: “He denied an election that he lost. What does it matter if he’s courteous if he can’t accept the results of American democracy and the American voter?”

Boris reiterated that he had beforehand stated that that was a “terrible thing to do”. He then took a stance in opposition to Krishnan for saying that the British former polictian “on some level” modelled himself on Donald Trump. He informed the presenter that that was “nonsense”.

Krishnan replied: “He called you British Trump, you must be looking at him and thinking, if he can come back given everything he’s done, then so can you because nothing you’ve done is quite as bad as him.”

The debate got here to an finish as Boris stated that he was no pushover to Trump and that what Krishnan has stated was “complete and utter tripe”.

“There was a time where he said something rather rude about safety in London and I was mayor of London for eight years and I took exception to that and I said that the only reason I wouldn’t visit parts of New York is the risk of meeting Donald Trump and this was seven or eight years ago, what you’ve just said Krishnan is complete and utter tripe.” He stated.

“I haven’t modelled myself on anybody, I speak as a I find and what I am saying to you tonight is this thing could go either way and what matters above all is that the United States is strong and if Kamala gets it then I hope to gods sake that she does not sell out the Ukrainians and I hope that Donald Trump doesn’t either.

“And I’ve cause primarily based off what I noticed to assume that he will not.”