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Boris Johnson’s advice to those in poverty is nothing more than infuriating

As Carrie Johnson once shrieked at him: “You don’t care for anything because you’re spoilt.”

Boris Johnson preparing a Tory conference speech. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/ Pool/Getty Images Images

Boris Johnson’s latest message – that work is the best route out of poverty – will infuriate millions of people who are already working hard, but still facing poverty.

As a former colleague of Johnson at the Telegraph, I am struck, too, by the irony of a man saying this who was paid £270,000 a year for furnishing the paper – invariably late – with one ropey column a week that used to make a lot of work for the sub-editors who had to try to correct the more obvious howlers.

As his future wife Carrie Johnson once shrieked at him: “You don’t care for anything because you’re spoilt. You have no care for money or anything.”

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