Boris Johnson has been accused of shamelessly using the war in Ukraine for his own political ends. The timing of his contacts with president Volodymyr Zelensky suggests there is plenty of evidence to support this claim. At the end of last week, within hours of his ethics adviser’s resignation, Johnson ducked out of a planned meeting with Northern MPs in favour of a day-trip to Kyiv.
The timing of Johnson’s conversations with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, have certainly rung alarm bells. All too often, Downing Street’s announcements about his telephone chats with Zelensky have usefully diverted attention from the particular difficulty Johnson was facing at the time and on to his role as international statesman
Downing Street has strongly denied this was ever done deliberately, saying Zelensky had many claims on his time and it was his availability that dictated the timings. Whatever the truth, there’s no doubt that Johnson has had a ‘good war’, so far.
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