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the coward is backing out
Critics have rounded on Boris Johnson after the former mayor of London quit the Conservative leadership race accused of having created a Brexit crisis without confronting the aftermath.
Tory grandee Michael Heseltine launched a stinging attack on Johnson, saying he must answer for the consequences of the campaign to take the UK out of the EU.
“He has ripped the Tory party apart, he has created the greatest constitutional crisis in peacetime in my life,” he told the BBC. “He has knocked billions off the value of the savings of the British people.”
Johnson, said Lord Heseltine, was like “a general who marches his army to the sound of the guns and the moment he sees the battleground he abandons it … The pain of it will be felt by all of us and, if it doesn’t get resolved shortly, by a generation to come yet.”
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Other critics included the actor Ewan McGregor, who said Johnson was “spineless” and had left it to someone else to “clear up [his] mess”.
The Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, said Johnson had followed “the Bullingdon playbook: you break it and someone else has to fix it”, referring to the Oxford drinking society of which Johnson and David Cameron were members.