BORIS JOHNSON TOLD an Irish official in 1996 that the UK Government needed to take a “hard egg” approach to dealing with the IRA following the ending of its 17-month ceasefire.
In the conversation, Johnson – who was the Deputy Editor of the Conservative-leaning Daily Telegraph at the time – said that the UK Government needed to take a “hard egg” approach to the IRA. “Implicit in Johnson’s argument was ‘let the nationalists go to hell’. He claimed that the IRA were in 1994 at the point of defeat, I asked him to name one serious security source who would back up that statement. Surely the lesson of the last twenty-five years is that there is no security or military solution. This was not an argument that he was prepared to accept,” Wrafter concluded.
Inan Bashir, a 29-year-old newsagent and John Jeffries, a 31-year-old musician, were killed in the blast, which also caused an estimated £150 million worth of damage. Johnson had previously described the Northern Ireland peace process as a “defeat” for the UK Government.
We saw his ' hard egg' policy towards Brexit lol.
Wouldn’t expect anything else. That’s the difference. We don’t or never did expect anything from the tories.😩
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