British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the Darnford Farm in Banchory | Pool photo by Andrew Milligan via Getty Images ‘Boris Johnson is nothing like Winston Churchill,’ says wartime PM’s grandson Churchill’s grandson calls Jacob Rees-Mogg ‘an absolute fraud.’

Nicholas Soames, the veteran Conservative MP who was effectively kicked out of the party for not backing Boris Johnson on Brexit, hit back hard at the prime minister.

Soames, who is the grandson of Winston Churchill, Johnson's political hero, told the Times: "Boris Johnson is nothing like Winston Churchill. I don’t think anyone has called Boris a diplomat or statesman."

Johnson this week withdrew the party whip from 21 Conservative rebels — including Soames, Rory Stewart and former chancellors Philip Hammond and Ken Clarke — after they voted against the government to push through legislation blocking a no-deal Brexit.

In the Times interview, Soames called Johnson "deeply unreliable," said he had "signed up to the Trump playbook," and there was no “helpful analogy” between the current PM and Churchill.

“Winston Churchill was like Winston Churchill because of his experiences in life. Boris Johnson’s experience in life is telling a lot of porkies about the European Union in Brussels and then becoming prime minister. He doesn’t like the House of Commons. He is engaged on this great Brexit obsession: get us out, deal or no deal, do or die. That is not Winston Churchill.

"I think Churchill would have thought it extraordinary that we would have thought ourselves so successful, so powerful, so well thought of in the world that we could afford to give up this extraordinary relationship we have in this great European Union.”

He added: “I am worried about the Tory party because ... give or take the odd spasm we have always been seen as pragmatic, sensible, good at our job, sane, reasonable and having the interests of the whole country and now it is beginning to look like a Brexit sect.”

Soames also set his sights on Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of the House of Commons. He said the sight of Rees-Mogg lounging on the front bench of parliament was “repulsive” and added: "He is an absolute fraud, he is a living example of what a moderately cut double-breasted suit and a decent tie can do with an ultra-posh voice and a bit of ginger stuck up his arse. You do not behave like that as leader of the House.”