Max Hastings, author and former editor of the Daily Telegraph and the London Evening Standard, is not a man who minces his words.

Weighing in on the domestic row last week involving his former employee, Boris Johnson, Hastings wrote in The Guardian yesterday: "If the Johnson family had stuck to showbusiness like the Osmonds, Marx Brothers or Von Trapp family, the world would be a better place."..

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