THE creator of Line of Duty has poked fun at Boris Johnson after he donned police gear for a press photo shoot.
The Prime Minister donned official gear as he joined officers in Liverpool for early morning drug raids.
Pictures of the Tory leader, who is the subject of a criminal complaint into lockdown parties on Downing Street last Christmas, quickly prompted ridicule online.
Jed Mercurio, who created hit police drama Line of Duty, shared a photo of Johnson on Twitter.
He wrote: “Thank you for submitting your audition for the next series of #LineofDuty but we’re looking for a character with at least one redeeming moral principle and a performance that places even just a scintilla of doubt in the audience’s mind that he might not be totally bent.”
Thank you for submitting your audition for the next series of #LineofDuty but we’re looking for a character with at least one redeeming moral principle and a performance that places even just a scintilla of doubt in the audience’s mind that he might not be totally bent pic.twitter.com/3jnJL74c5f
— Jed Mercurio (@jed_mercurio) December 6, 2021
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The response was hailed by Twitter users.
“This is the best thing I've seen for a while,” one replied.
Another wrote: “And today Jed Mercurio owns Twitter, the end.”
The Prime Minister was in Liverpool to announce the UK Government’s 10-year drugs strategy in England and Wales, insisting he was was “absolutely determined to fight” the “disgusting” drugs trade.
He added: “I take the view that it is a long time really since you heard a government say that drugs – Class A drugs – are bad and bad for society, bad for opportunity, bad for kids growing up in this country,” he told broadcasters in Merseyside.
“That’s my view, and I think it is something we can tackle, something we can deal with.”
In an interview with The Sun On Sunday, Johnson – who has previously admitted to taking cocaine – said action to tackle middle class drug use could include removing the passports and driving licences of offenders.
It comes after policing minister Kit Malthouse said he would be “surprised” if there were not users of unlawful drugs in Parliament following a newspaper investigation found traces of cocaine in numerous sites.
“There are obviously several thousand people who work on the estate and I would be surprised if there weren’t some lifestyle users of drugs amongst them,” he told Sky News.
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