Perfidious

y and we’ll get a statement later, but to not give our full backing to France right now would be deeply shameful, and, what is that word, perfidious. It would also go against the British people’s interests, which are best served by supporting our friends and neighbours, and fellow lovers of liberty, against the world’s tyrants and bullies — and I imagine that public opinion will overwhelmingly favour the French.

Somehow, for all his bluster, Johnson seems incapable of a taking a clear moral stance – on anything, pretty much.