He almost had his finger on the nuclear button .... but now George Osborne has been firing a machine gun while on holiday in Vietnam.
Video shot by fellow tourists appears to show the former Chancellor blasting away with an M60 light machine gun at a former Viet Cong base that is now an attraction near Ho Chi Minh city
The footage posted online by The Daily Mirror appears to show the MP for Tatton firing three bursts of gunfire after paying £1 per round of ammunition. Empty cartridges can be heard clattering onto the ground.
One onlooker told the newspaper the weapon was “one of those really, really big machine guns - the Rambo-style one”.
Witnesses joked that Mr Osborne was probably aiming at photos of Theresa May or Boris Johnson.
Mr Osborne, who served as Chancellor since 2010, has kept a low profile since being sacked from the Cabinet by Theresa May. He had been tipped to succeed David Cameron as Prime Minister until the Brexit vote wrecked their hopes.
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