Watch: Steve Baker blasts Boris as ‘a pound shop Farage’

It’s all getting a bit spicy in Westminster. Barely an hour after Boris Johnson and Liz Truss announced that they would not vote for Rishi Sunak’s Windsor Framework, out came serial rebel turned ultimate loyalist Steve Baker to savage their decision. The Northern Ireland minister launched an astonishing attack on the former Tory premiers saying that both are ‘better than this.’ And turning his guns specifically on Johnson, Baker said that:

He has got a choice. He can be remembered for the great acts of statecraft that he achieved or he can risk looking like a pound shop Nigel Farage and I hope he chooses to be remembered as a statesman.

Ouch. Baker also credited Truss for ‘setting the process in train’ and added that ‘today’s measures are better of course than the protocol that Boris Johnson put in place, a protocol which he has spoken about and those things he said turned out not to be accurate.’