Johnson backed Leave to 'help career' says Cameron
Boris Johnson did not believe in Brexit during the referendum campaign and backed Leave "because it would help his political career", says David Cameron.
In an extract from his memoir published in the Sunday Times, the former PM also refers to cabinet minister Michael Gove as "a foam-flecked Faragist".
The pair were "ambassadors for the expert-trashing, truth twisting age of populism," Mr Cameron writes.
And he also accuses Mr Gove of being disloyal to himself and Mr Johnson.
Of his former colleague Mr Cameron writes, "one quality shone through: disloyalty. Disloyalty to me - and, later, disloyalty to Boris".
The latest revelations comes after another extract published on Saturday accused the pair of behaving "appallingly" during the 2016 referendum campaign.
Boris Johnson did not believe in Brexit during the referendum campaign and backed Leave "because it would help his political career", says David Cameron.
In an extract from his memoir published in the Sunday Times, the former PM also refers to cabinet minister Michael Gove as "a foam-flecked Faragist".
The pair were "ambassadors for the expert-trashing, truth twisting age of populism," Mr Cameron writes.
And he also accuses Mr Gove of being disloyal to himself and Mr Johnson.
Of his former colleague Mr Cameron writes, "one quality shone through: disloyalty. Disloyalty to me - and, later, disloyalty to Boris".
The latest revelations comes after another extract published on Saturday accused the pair of behaving "appallingly" during the 2016 referendum campaign.
And of Mr Gove - a cabinet minister both now and then - he said: "I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
"Gove, the liberal-minded, carefully considered Conservative intellectual, had become a foam-flecked Faragist warning that the entire Turkish population was about to come to Britain."
During the run-up to the EU referendum, Mr Gove claimed Turkey and four other countries could join the EU by 2020, increasing the UK's population by up to 5.23 million by 2030.
However, it was the behaviour of his then employment minister and current Home Secretary Priti Patel that "shocked" him the most, he says.
"She used every announcement, interview and speech to hammer the government on immigration, even though she was part of that government," he writes.
"I was stuck, though: unable to fire her, because that would make her a Brexit martyr."
The prime minister, Mr Gove and Ms Patel are yet to respond to the criticisms of them contained in Mr Cameron's book.
In an interview with the Times published on Saturday, Mr Cameron said he was "hugely depressed" about the 2016 referendum result and he knew "some people will never forgive me".
But he defended his decision to call the poll, arguing the issue of the EU "needed to be addressed".
