Boris Johnson Suffers ‘Political Amnesia’ Over Hitler, Tusk Says
- London’s ex-mayor likened EU to Nazi bid to dominate continent
- EU’s top official lambastes Johnson for ‘dangerous blackout’
Boris Johnson.
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Boris Johnson embarrassed himself as a sufferer of “political amnesia” by comparing the European Union to Adolf Hitler’s attempt to conquer the continent, the EU’s top official said.
London’s former mayor “crossed boundaries of rational discourse,” EU President Donald Tusk told reporters in Copenhagen on Tuesday. He called Johnson’s historical allusion a “dangerous blackout.”