According to Nick Robinson, David Cameron turned the phone network blue with a sweary text to Boris Johnson as the London mayor left Tory conference in Manchester:
Nick Robinson: If viewers heard a bit of a cheer there in the hall, that’s interesting for the future of the Tory Party, it was a picture not of David Cameron on his own which they are largely seeing, it was a picture of him and Boris Johnson who has been both the star of this conference and its biggest problem, because he simply refused to follow the script on Europe. Wouldn’t do it, nearly was generating massive headline by doing so, ignored the advice that he was sent. One party worker close to David Cameron showed me a text message that had been sent to Boris as he got on the train home. Not a word of it I think is safely repeatable at any time on television.
Andrew Neil: Really?
Nick Robinson: Absolutely so furious.
Our “ayatollah of the digital Crayola” (who can be pursued on Twitter here) muses on this exchange:
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Boris doesn’t mince his words, he tells it the way it is, unlike the slick salesman Con – eron
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New post –> Con-text: that Cameron SMS message to Boris http://cli.gs/nMW5H
Loving this juicy nonsense about abusive texting – surely Camcon bitches at Bojo daily..!? RT @psbook: http://cli.gs/nMW5H
inspired by @tom_watson RT @psbook: New post –> Con-text: that Cameron SMS message to Boris http://cli.gs/nMW5H
Cameron's 'sweary' SMS message to Boris http://cli.gs/nMW5H
via @psbook – remind you of Armstrong & Miller? http://tinyurl.com/2yfwcl