Longtime party member Mohammed Amin called Johnson a “buffoon” and violently criticized the Tory frontrunner’s tendency to “mock Muslim women who wear niqab and burka” for his own agenda.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4, Amin claimed he would “resign after 36 years” if Johnson was elected leader. When he was questioned about Johnson’s popularity with other party members, Amin stressed that “popularity is not the test.”
“The test is: is this person sufficiently moral to be prime minister, and I believe he fails that test,” he added.
He then drew a comparison between Johnson’s popularity and that of Hitler, telling BBC Radio 4 that “a lot of Germans thought that Hitler was the right man for them.”
The controversial comparison sparked reactions from other politicians. Among others, MP Andrew Bridgen, who is backing Johnson, lamented that he was “deeply disappointed that anyone would want to leave the Conservative Party. There’s nothing more divisive than a Conservative Party leadership election.”
