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What rows has Boris Johnson had with Theresa May over Brexit and why did they infuriate No10?

September 2017:

Brexit manifesto

Boris Johnson penned a 4,000 word Brexit manifesto just days before Theresa May set out her own vision for Britain's departure.

The subsequent row, in which Home Secretary Amber Rudd branded him a 'backseat driver', led to speculation he might quit.

September 2017: 

Red lines: 

Boris Johnson infuriated Theresa May and overshadowed the Tory Party conference last autumn by setting out his ‘red lines’ on Brexit on the eve of the national meeting. 

He said he was not prepared to stay shackled to the EU ‘a second longer’ than a two-year transition period, no new EU rules must be introduced during the transition, and the UK must refuse further payments to the bloc for single market aces.

His intervention grabbed headlines and plunged the party into a fresh bout of leadership speculation just when the PM was trying to project unity. 

January 2018:  

NHS Brexit dividend:

After a couple of months of keeping relatively quiet, Boris Johnson snatched headlines again by briefing the press that he would demand a £100m a week Brexit dividend for the NHS. 

The leading Brexiteer is keen to make good on his referendum promise that quitting the bloc would free up more cash for hospitals. 

But it infuriated No10 and sparked a public slap down from Chancellor Philip Hammond who pointed out Mr Johnson was the Foreign Secretary – not the Health Secretary. 

 

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