Boris Johnson compares Corbyn to Stalin over ‘hatred’ of billionaires

13:58, 06.11.2019

Boris Johnson has compared Jeremy Corbyn to the communist dictator Joseph Stalin, accusing his political rival of demonising billionaires and harbouring a “hatred” of so-called wealth creators.

The prime minister accused the Labour leader of victimising the country’s richest with a “relish and vindictiveness” not seen since the Soviet leader persecuted landowners in the 1930s, as reported by The Independent.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph as he launched his party’s general election campaign, Mr Johnson claimed: “The tragedy of the modern Labour Party is that they detest the profit motive so viscerally – and would raise taxes so wantonly – that they would destroy the very basis of this country’s prosperity.

Launching Labour’s election campaign, Mr Corbyn promised “the biggest people-powered campaign in history” to deliver “a society that works for everybody and not just the billionaires”.

He later wrote on Twitter: “There are 150 billionaires in the UK while 14 million people live in poverty. “In a fair society there would be no billionaires and no one would live in poverty.”

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