Posted: 22:38, 13 April 2022 | Updated: 22:57, 13 April 2022
Actor Dan Stevens shocked viewers of The One Show tonight, launching a savage attack on Boris Johnson in the middle of a fluffy interview for his new drama series.
The Downton Abbey star was on the BBC One program to promote Gaslit, a new American show about the Watergate scandal, which also starred Sean Penn and Julia Roberts.
However, when asked by host Alex Jones to explain more about the series, which focuses on the embarrassed former President Richard Nixon, Stevens led the audience in a different direction – to criticize the Prime Minister for his fine at Partygate.
“Well, what you have is a criminal for a leader who is embroiled in a messy war, embroiled in an idiotic scandal and surrounded by ambitious idiots, and really has to give up,” Dan Stevens said in an interview with his news outlet. drama.
The actor then stopped and appeared to be confused before continuing his view. “No, I’m sorry, this is Boris Johnson’s introduction,” he said. “As soon as I said introduction to Boris Johnson, I’m very sorry.”
Alex Jones gasped in response as co-host Jermaine Jenna appeared to be laughing and turned his head away from the camera.
“Well, what you have is a criminal for a leader who is wrapped up in a dirty war, embroiled in a stupid scandal and surrounded by ambitious idiots, and he really has to give up,” he said.
The actor then stopped and appeared to be confused before continuing his view.
“No, I’m sorry, this is Boris Johnson’s introduction,” he said.
“As soon as I said introduction to Boris Johnson, I’m very sorry.”
Jones gasped in response while co-presenter Jermaine Jenna appeared to be laughing and turned his head away from the camera.
It comes as two Tory lawmakers have now called for Johnson to resign – just hours after Lord Wolfson became the first minister to resign in response to the prime minister’s birthday fine.
Craig Whitaker followed in the footsteps of Nigel Mills this morning, urging Johnson – as well as Chancellor Risi Sunak – to step down.
Conservative peer David Wolfson resigned as justice minister earlier today, also launching a wide-ranging side against the prime minister.
A provocative Mr. Johnson rejected the new calls to resign after the Metropolitan Police found that he had violated the instructions for the coronavirus, insisting that he wants to “take over and fulfill the order I have”.
The embarrassing allegations of breaking the law – the first by an incumbent prime minister – came months after Mr Johnson urged lawmakers and the public that he had not broken any rules.
Even in his apology yesterday, the prime minister admitted that he did not believe that the June 19 incident broke any of the lockdown restrictions introduced by his government.
And in recent months he has spoken to the House of Commons to deny violating the rules.
The deliberate deception of the Parliament is a matter of resignation, as defined in the Ministerial Code of Ethics – which is controlled by the Prime Minister himself.
