Dominic Grieve leads in taking revenge against PM under the cover of protesting against sleaze

Like ageing Second World War Japanese soldiers they came, emerging from the jungle seemingly unaware that the Brexit conflict was over… an army of arch-Remainers looking to take potshots at the hated enemy.

Under the cover of protesting against sleaze, Dominic Grieve led a ‘Remoaner Revenge’ against Boris Johnson with his Dyson-inspired jibe about a ‘vacuum of integrity’.

And in support, other veterans of the failed anti-Brexit campaign lined up to blast the Prime Minister.

Under the cover of protesting against sleaze, Dominic Grieve led a ‘Remoaner Revenge’ against Boris Johnson with his Dyson-inspired jibe about a ‘vacuum of integrity’

Grieve, who was expelled by Mr Johnson from the Tory parliamentary party over his Brexit rebellion, appeared to relish his chance to hit back, accusing the PM of ‘smoke and mirrors’ over how the refit of his Downing Street flat was paid for. 

In what sounded like a well rehearsed jibe, he added that the scandal was ‘just one illustration of the chaos Mr Johnson seems to bring in his wake and the reason for that is because he is a vacuum of integrity’.

Anna Soubry, another ex-Tory MP Remainer, took to Twitter to rage that Mr Johnson and Mr Cummings ‘deserve each other – back-stabbing, two-faced egotistical liars’.

And former Tory MP Phillip Lee drew a direct link to Brexit, declaring the ‘grubby and incompetent little cabal’ now running the country were ‘the same people who began by lying their way to Brexit.’

Anna Soubry, another ex-Tory MP Remainer, took to Twitter to rage that Mr Johnson and Mr Cummings ‘deserve each other – back-stabbing, two-faced egotistical liars’

Tony Blair’s former spin doctor and hardcore Remainer Alastair Campbell added: ‘I hope it ends with a Labour government getting rid of these sleazebags and getting this cesspit cleared out.’

Fervent Brexiteer Mark Francois hit back, saying: ‘In the eyes of die-hard Remainers, Boris’s unforgivable sin was to fulfil the democratic mandate to take us out of the EU.’

But Dr Lee rejected the idea his condemnation was simply rooted in Brexit, saying his criticism also included Mr Johnson’s handling of Covid, branding him ‘incompetent, untrustworthy and totally unsuitable to be PM’.