Boris Johnson has backed Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, declaring that the “global wokerati” is “trembling violently” at the thought of his second term.
The former prime minister, who served concurrently with Mr Trump for thirteen months between 2019 to 2021, said he believed he would continue US support for Ukraine and praised his “willingness to use force” and “sheer unpredictability”.
In an article for the Daily Mail, Mr Johnson said the prospect of a second Trump presidency had caused a “shriek” from the “Western liberal intelligentsia” and produced a “sheer, gibbering funk”.
“In the cocktail parties of Davos, I am told, the global wokerati have been trembling so violently that you could hear the ice tinkling in their negronis,” he said.
“In the senior common rooms of our universities, in the synod of the Church of England, in the Orwellian corridors of the BBC and among much of the UK establishment there has been a caterwauling orgy of nose-holding abhorrence.”
Mr Trump has a commanding lead in the Republican primary race, winning the Iowa caucuses earlier this week by a landslide and becoming odds-on favourite to repeat his victory in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
His main contender in the state, Nikki Haley, has launched a series of attacks on the former president, while he has falsely claimed she is not eligible to run for the White House because of her Indian heritage.
Although neither state has a large enough population to swing the nomination in either candidate’s favour, they are considered to have a disproportionate impact on the race because they vote first.