I tried fat-busting jab to stop raiding fridge for cheddar & chorizo – here’s how it went, Boris Johnson reveals
BORIS Johnson has revealed that he tried a fat-busting jab to stop him raiding the fridge for cheddar and chorizo.
The former PM said he believed that the “wonder drug” Ozempic could be a lifechanger for millions of people.
A favourite of A-Listers, as The Sun’s own Clemmie Moodie revealed, the drug is reported to have drastic results.
Indeed, writing for MailPlus, Johnson recalled learning about it after a cabinet minister entered a meeting having noticeably lost weight.
Admitting an over-fondness for midnight snacking, the recently -resigned MP rushed to his doctor for a consultation.
He wrote: “All you need to do is inject a tiny dose of clear Ozempic fluid into your abdomen, once a week, and hey presto — no more raiding the fridge at 11.30pm for the cheddar and chorizo washed down with half a bottle of wine.”
The jabs eventually led to Johnson losing four or five pounds a week, he claimed.
However, he soon started to “dread” injecting himself and said that it started to make him feel ill.
Interestingly, Clemmie reported similar side effects when she trialled the medication on herself.
Despite this, though, Johnson remains confident the “transformative” weight-loss drugs still have a role to play.
He added: “The obesity crisis in this country is appalling: more than three-quarters of older people are overweight or obese — and the numbers are terrible among the kids.
“I see nothing morally wrong in using these drugs to help you lose weight, any more than it is wrong to use an electrically assisted bicycle to get up the hill.
“Even for us fatties, it turns out, there is such a thing as satiety — and science has found it.”
It comes after Johnson’s sensational resignation following the report into the Partygate scandal, which he dubbed a “witch hunt”.
Parliament’s Privileges Committee concluded in their report that he had deliberately misled the House of Commons and recommended a whopping 90-day suspension.
The Covid-era Prime Minister hit out at the findings as “deranged“, while senior allies Nadine Dorries and Nigel Adams announced their intentions to resign.
Ms Dorries has since paused her resignation while she looks into the circumstances around her being blocked from Johnson’s resignations honours list.
This presents a tricky situation for the current occupant of Number 10 Rishi Sunak, with a possible three by-elections at a time when the Tories trail Labour in the polls by double-digits.
Meanwhile, a fourth by-election looms as SNP MP Margaret Ferrier is set to lose her position for breaching lockdown restrictions.
The Sun is predicting that the electoral nightmare for Mr Sunak will see Labour gain two seats and another go to the Lib Dems, with the Conservatives holding just one of the seats in play.