Boris Johnson: Lord Sugar learns of Supreme Court ruling at Apprentice launch, calls PM ‘criminal’
‘I am sick and tired of this whole Brexit bloody nonsense’
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Lord Alan Sugar joked he would visit Boris Johnson in prison after the Supreme Court ruled against the Prime Minister by declaring his government had unlawfully shut down parliament for five weeks.
Speaking at the launch of the 15th series of The Apprentice, the tycoon was asked what his reaction was to the ruling.
“Is Boris going to Brixton, then?” he said after learning the news from a Sky News journalist. “I’ll visit him.”
Sugar was prompted to give further reaction about whether he feels the ruling could have a negative effect on businesses.
“I couldn’t care less, quite frankly. I should, but I have to say – at 72 years of age, I am sick and tired of this whole Brexit bloody nonsense. Sick and tired of the manner the whole thing have been conducted in. We are a farce, a laughing story for the rest of the world. Something’s got to sort itself out; I hope that common sense prevails in the end.”
Sugar, when asked by The Independent if he’d ever invite Johnson onto the celebrity version of the BBC show, said: “It depends if he gets out on remand. You know what the BBC are like – they don’t like criminals.
“I had his sister [Rachel Johnson] on. She got very angry with me, because I said, ‘Who wants to be PM apart from you brother?’ She got very angry.”
The Apprentice returns to BBC One at 9pm on Wednesday 3 October. Find a breakdown of all of this year’s candidates here.
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