Winston Churchill’s grandson today launched an extraordinary attack on Tories campaigning to quit the European Union, saying they should be kicked “really hard in the balls” like a savage dog.
Senior MP Sir Nicholas Soames said David Cameron was too soft on Brexiteers — and he claimed London Mayor Boris Johnson did not really believe in leaving the EU.
“If you have an Alsatian sitting in front of you, and it growls at you and bares its teeth, there are two ways of dealing with it,” he told the ConservativeHome website.
“You can pat it on the head, in which case it’ll bite you, or you can kick it really hard in the balls, in which case it’ll run away.
“Successive prime ministers, and it’s not the present Prime Minister alone, have never understood that they have to take these people on.”
On the Mayor of London, Sir Nicholas said: “I deeply regret the fact that he’s jumped ship. I know for a fact he’s not an Outer, because he told me, and I think that he went through agony to come to this decision, and that’s his look-out.”
Sir Nicholas said Iain Duncan Smith was “gauche” in the way he resigned but dismissed media coverage of the Conservative splits, saying: “A minister has resigned in unusual circumstances.
"He hasn’t been found rogering a guardsman in Hyde Park or stealing stuff. He’s resigned on a point of principle. And that of course is beyond the press.”
Conservative MP Peter Bone, who founded the Grassroots Out campaign to demand a Brexit, hit back by accusing Sir Nicholas of risking deeper Tory divisions.
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“We should have a grown up debate and argue the merits of the case, not make rude and derogatory remarks about colleagues,” he said.
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