Former MP Rory Stewart has caused a storm on social media as he posted the perfect April Fool’s Day tweet, saying Boris Johnson asked him to be his new communications chief.
The 49-year-old, who is currently a senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs where he teaches politics and international relations, was once MP for Penrith and the Border and Minister of State, Department for International Development.
He left politics after failing in the race for Conservative party leader. However, as a result of his tweet, many thought he might be making a grand return to the fold.
‘An Honour’ To Serve
Stewart shocked the world when he posted on Twitter saying he’d been asked by the Prime Minister to be the new director of communications, going on to say he was ‘looking forward to working with the PM’.
People Are Not Happy
In the past there’s been a public friction between Stewart and the PM as the former MP once said Johnson was a ‘terrible prime minister and a worse human being’ so when he posted his April Fool’s news people clearly hadn’t forgot his previous views and weren’t happy thinking he’d made such a U-turn.
Of course today is Friday, April 1, and his tweet is just a joke and Stewart is not re-entering UK politics, yet. And if his article for the Financial Times is anything to go by, Stewart will probably not be returning while Johnson is still Prime Minister
In the article he said: ‘Twenty years have passed since the Conservative party first selected him as a candidate. Michael Howard and David Cameron made him a shadow minister, and Theresa May gave him the Foreign Office.
‘Thirty years of celebrity made him famous for his mendacity, indifference to detail, poor administration, and inveterate betrayal of every personal commitment. Yet, knowing this, the majority of Conservative MPs, and party members, still voted for him to be prime minister.
‘He is not, therefore, an aberration, but a product of a system that will continue to produce terrible politicians long after he is gone.’