Londoner's Diary: Andy Wigmore attacks Boris Johnson and shares his US plans

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14 February 2017

Watch out, Boris. The Foreign Secretary pushed Nigel Farage’s mate Andy Wigmore, pictured, out of his job as Belize’s trade and investment envoy to Britain earlier this month, for engaging in political activity during Brexit. Wigmore is still angry with Johnson, he texts us. “[I’m] furious with him,” he said. “He’s a petty whimp [sic] with zero balls.”

Wigmore boasts of being transferred by Belize to the US instead. “I’m hated by Boris, loved by Trump,” he said. “So I’ve been sent to Washington to annoy the British Ambassador.”

Wigmore’s new brief has a familiar ring: “making Belize great again”. He says it will include trade and “helping promote the Commonwealth to the Trump administration”. Despite the hard work he says he’ll be keeping up his clay-pigeon shooting — he is an Olympic standard shooter ranked 274 out of 274 in the world.

When The Londoner called Belize’s outpost in Washington yesterday, a woman in the ambassador’s office hadn’t heard of Wigmore. “That doesn’t mean other people haven’t,” she said.

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