Lord Hague, the former Tory leader, has branded Boris Johnson’s exit from No 10 a “tragedy” as he suggested the outgoing prime minister had failed to fulfill his potential.
Johnson compared himself during his farewell speech to a “propeller rocket that has served its purpose”.
Lord Hague told Times Radio: “I would say he achieved things with some of the things he mentioned: the vaccine task force, the strong support for Ukraine.
“I would have said that the leave scheme in Covid actually kept people in work. Those are important things in his government, but you’re absolutely right a lot of things are half way or not done yet.
“So it’s funny how it, it’s funny that it’s a booster, it’s a rocket booster that’s going to fall into the Pacific, but it’s tragic, really, that it was a rocket booster where the guidance system failed.
“And that’s really been a problem that he was such a great thing in politics, such an extraordinary thing, that it went wrong unnecessarily. And that’s a tragedy for the country and the Conservative Party and for him and I don’t think, but , he. phrases that can hide this fact.”