Alan Bennett loathes Boris and finds Trump and Farage nauseating

ACTOR AND playwright Alan Bennett has admitted that he 'loathes' Boris Johnson and finds the friendship between Donald Trump and Nigel Farage 'utterly nauseating'.
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Alan Bennett

The History Boys writer, 82, originally from Armley, Leeds, revealed he has been getting “more left-wing” in his later years and compared the current political climate to the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister.

Sharing his particularly anti-Brexit opinions with the Radio Times, he said: “With Brexit, it felt as though we were spitting in their faces.

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“I also loathe Boris Johnson. So cavalier. It was almost on the toss of a coin really, which side he went.

“I’ve spoken to his father, because he was at the same college as I was.

“I felt like saying, ‘Why didn’t you bring your son up to tell the truth?’ “

Adding his feelings about the US President elect, he said: “I feel fear and unease. At the kindest, he’s unreliable. When it’s just him, that’s fine, but it’s the world ... I must say that the picture of him with Nigel Farage was utterly nauseating, in a real sense.”

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The artist, who lives in north London, said his opinions on such matters have been getting stronger with his age.

“People are always shocked that I’m left-wing,” he said. “And I’ve got more left-wing as I’ve got older. I’m not sorry about getting more left-wing, I’m sorry that there are more things to be getting left-wing about. Recently, it’s gone back to what it was under Mrs Thatcher, people sleeping in doorways ... Conservatives have this notion that it’s somehow self-imposed, that if you’re poor, it’s your own fault.”