A leading Tory has compared leadership front runner Boris Johnson to Hitler and insisted he will resign from his post and the party if Boris Johnson was to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Mohammed Amin is the chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum, he has launched a furious attack on the former Foreign Secretary suggesting he was unfit to be Prime Minister citing his comments last year which compared Muslim women wearing the burka to letterboxes and bank robbers.
Mr Amin who was awarded an MBE in 2016 “For services to Community Cohesion and Inter-faith Relations in Greater Manchester” was speaking on BBC Radio Four’s today programme when he described Mr Johnson as a “buffoon” as well as going on to say “I have been a Conservative party member for over 36 years, and we don’t expect our politicians, our Prime Minister, to be saints, but we do require a basic level of morality and integrity and of all the candidates in the Conservative party leadership election, Boris Johnson is the only one that I believe fails that test and I’m not prepared to be a member of a party that chooses him as its leader. I would resign after 36 years.”
Mr Johnson has continually stated that even if he was to become the next Prime Minister, he would not stop speaking his mind.
At Boris Johnson’s leadership launch, he stated: “Of course occasionally some plaster comes off the ceiling as a result of a phrase I may have used or indeed as a result of the way that phrase has been taken out of context and interpreted by those who wish for reasons of their own to caricature my views.” Laura Kussenburg of the BBC suggested on Friday that “its his to lose”. With 114 votes in the first ballot, it is difficult to disagree with her.
However, Mohammed Amim who is also the co-chair of the Muslim Jewish forum for Greater Manchester was not finished there he said that “There are many horrible people who have been popular” as well as “A lot of Germans thought that Hitler was the right man for them. I’m not saying that Boris Johnson wants to send people to the gas chambers, clearly, he doesn’t, he’s a buffoon. But he as far as I’m concerned has an insufficient concern about the nature of truth for me to ever be a member of a party that he leads.”
Boris Johnson was cleared of wrongdoing in a Conservative party investigation into his comments made last year.
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Current Affairs Correspondent | My name is Oliver Down I am 22, and a staunch brexiteer. I am a Bristolian lad who studied politics in Leicester. I believe in free speech and accurate journalism and I won’t be afraid to give you “the other side” of the story!
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