Boris Johnson has suggested that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu bugged his toilet during a visit to Britain.
In his new memoir the former UK PM said that a listening device was found in his private bathroom at the Foreign Office after it was used by the controversial Middle East leader.
Writing in ‘Unleashed’, the former Tory premier alleged that his security team had made the discovery when they did a sweep of the toilets following a meeting in 2017.
He described how Mr Netanyahu had excused himself during talks at his old office to use the washroom, described as ‘a secret annex… a bit like the gents in a posh London club.’
‘Thither Bibi repaired for a while, and it may or may not be a coincidence but I am told that later, when they were doing a regular sweep for bugs, they found a listening device in the thunderbox,’ Mr Johnson said.
In his new memoir the former UK PM said that a listening device was found in his private bathroom at the Foreign Office after it was used by the controversial Middle East leader.
Writing in ‘Unleashed’, the former Tory premier alleged that his security team had made the discovery when they did a sweep of the toilets following a meeting in 2017 (pictured)
It is unclear whether the Israeli government was confronted about the incident.
Mr Johnson resigned as foreign secretary later that year, but met Mr Netanyahu again in No10 in 2019 when he was himself PM.
Elsewhere in the book, Mr Johnson likened his chief adviser turned arch critic Dominic Cummings to a ‘homicidal robot’ who worked to undermine him while he was in Number 10.
‘I felt like the crew in Nostromo, the spaceship in Alien, when they discover that their colleague Ash is a homicidal robot – on a completely different mission,’ he said.
Mr Johnson will be questioned about the revelations in his memoir during an appearance on ITV set to air on Friday evening.
It comes after the BBC was forced to cancel an interview with him after presenter Laura Kuenssberg accidentally sent the former prime minister her briefing notes.
The Israeli embassy in London has been contacted for comment.
