Boris Johnson branded ‘so cheap’ for plugging memoir during US election coverage

Former UK premier curate Boris Johnson has been told disconnected for holding up his memoir and plugging it during a impermanent quality connected Channel 4’s sum of the US election.

Just minutes into the unrecorded programme titled America Decides: US Presidential Election, co-host Krishnan Guru-Murthy told Mr Johnson to “put it away” and “stop it, enough” arsenic helium doubly referenced his caller publication and attempted to clasp it up to viewers.

Guru-Murthy described the erstwhile premier minister’s actions arsenic “so cheap”.

Mr Johnson retorted: “There’s perfectly thing you tin bash to halt me… I’m allowed to plug my book.”

The 60-year-old has been promoting his caller memoir tiled Unleashed aft it was released past month.

The 784-page publication looks backmost connected Mr Johnson’s clip arsenic premier curate – from 2019 to 2022 – including Brexit and the Covid pandemic.

Channel 4 newsreader Guru-Murthy is astatine the helm of the channel’s archetypal overnight US predetermination programme since 1992 alongside erstwhile Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis.

Political pundits, and a fig of celebrated faces including Mr Johnson, volition articulation the hosts successful the Washington DC workplace arsenic the American nationalist decides whether Democratic nominee Kamala Harris oregon Mr Trump becomes president.

Guests connected the programme see Republican protagonist and world TV prima Caitlyn Jenner, and Stormy Daniels, the pistillate astatine the centre of Mr Trump’s hush wealth proceedings pursuing an matter betwixt the two.