Boris Johnson has reportedly taken a recent swipe at Emmanuel Macron over Vladimir Putin.

The ex-prime minister is claimed to have slapped down the French President over his warning in opposition to the Russian chief being "humiliated" amid his brutal invasion of Ukraine.

Mr Johnson made the feedback throughout a personal lunch organised by a pro-Ukraine assume tank in Dallas as he headed to the US to drum up help amongst Republicans for war-torn Kyiv, in accordance with Politico.

Putting on a French accent, the 58-year-old instructed company on the lunch: “I think it was my French friend and colleague Emmanuel Macron who said ‘Putin must not be humiliated'.

“I think it takes an awful lot to humiliate Vladimir Putin, frankly. I don’t think it’s our job to worry about Vladimir Putin’s ego, or his political prospects, or developments in his career.”

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In June final 12 months, Mr Macron stated the West should not "humiliate" Russia in order that when the combating stops in Ukraine a diplomatic answer may be discovered.

He stated: "We should not humiliate Russia in order that the day when the combating stops we are able to construct an exit ramp via diplomatic means."

Mr Johnson led help for Ukraine and struck up a detailed friendship with wartime chief Volodymyr Zelensky when he was the occupant of No 10.

He has continued to talk out in help of Kyiv, which has been underneath assault by Russia since February 2021.

It comes after claims a livid Mr Johnson beforehand blasted Mr Macron as "Putin's lickspittle" after the French President criticised the then-PM's response to the Ukrainian refugee disaster.

Former Downing Street director of communication Guto Harri additionally stated Mr Johnson known as Mr Macron a "four-letter word that begins with c".

He instructed his Unprecedented podcast: "When the British press was giving the British Government a hard time over our response to the refugee crisis, Macron turbocharged it by criticising Boris pretty directly and his words were all over the front page of The Guardian.

"Much as Boris is just not liable to getting actually cross, nor utilizing notably sturdy language, this was one the place he actually flipped at our morning assembly.

"He just launched into a violent attack on Emmanuel Macron.

"Basically, saying 'He's a four-letter phrase that begins with C, he is a weirdo, he is Putin's lickspittle... We want an orgy of frog bashing. I'm going to should punch his lights out'."

Mr Harri said the two leaders had patched up their differences before a G7 summit a few weeks later.

The former No 10 official also said there was an "extraordinary bond" between Mr Johnson and Mr Zelensky.

Recalling a telephone name on the night time Ukraine was invaded, Mr Harri stated: "It was massively sobering.

"We really could not believe that this was seriously underway. A superpower advancing on a neighbour who had done nothing to provoke it.

"Boris couldn't have been clearer that we had been there to assist Ukraine in whichever means we presumably may, utilizing no matter we may presumably deploy inside motive.

"The two of them had this extraordinary bond. And, dare I mention it, this kind of really dark gallows humour that was obviously a coping mechanism."