Boris Johnson turned to the Old Testament – specifically, the Book of Exodus – to deliver his latest ultimatum to Theresa May in his column for the Daily Telegraph today.

The front page of tomorrow’s Daily Telegraph: Boris Johnson: ‘We have blinked. We have baulked. We have bottled it completely. It is time for the PM to channel the spirit of Moses in Exodus, and say to Pharaoh in Brussels – LET MY PEOPLE GO’ pic.twitter.com/r0m99bgKme — The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 24, 2019

To save you the trouble of reading it, the former foreign secretary says May’s government is ‘chicken’ and has ‘completely bottled it’ over Brexit.

‘We have blinked. We have baulked. We have bottled it completely. It is time for the PM to channel the spirit of Moses in Exodus, and say to Pharaoh in Brussels – LET MY PEOPLE GO’

And we reckon these 19 responses give it the full chapter and verse.

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The Moses thing only works if you see the Israelites as having worked with Pharoah to increase trade, opportunity, protections for workers & the environment and so on, and the Promised Land as an impoverished, isolated country banging on about bendy bananas they can no longer get pic.twitter.com/qnu3cUH2JW — David Schneider (@davidschneider) March 24, 2019

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Here it is. I fucking knew it. After keeping eerily silent last few months, waiting for his moment,he shows up suddenly like a holy saviour with new PR and even newer haircut. You were instrumental in causing this shituation so cock off with your call to arms, you sinister whelk https://t.co/pBD0x2Fj1E — Rachel Parris (@rachelparris) March 25, 2019

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I think this means we’re going to spend the next forty years in the wilderness. pic.twitter.com/XRfxUbkGNW — Tom Sutcliffe (@tds153) March 24, 2019

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I mean, I’d just love to be in the room for the awkward pause after he shouts “Let My People Go!”, and everyone realises that’s all he’s got on this. https://t.co/UYtpDSzPJZ — Dara Ó Briain (@daraobriain) March 24, 2019

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Me: Just ignore it. The man is so irrelevant his only card is writing articles so absurd half the internet can't help but dunk on them. Also me: He knows Moses achieved no progress in nine negotiating rounds and Egypt immediately reneged on the only outcome of the 10th, right? https://t.co/Bd4dSnb5ce — Dmitry Grozoubinski (@DmitryOpines) March 25, 2019

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Hark! The fatuous thumping of an empty breastplate. From the back of the legion trots this pink little coward huffing & bellowing on his toy horse inviting those still dumb enough to listen to imagine victories he has neither motivation nor guile enough to deliver. https://t.co/lb5IBOUva1 — Marcoooos! (@marcusbrig) March 24, 2019

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This is just intensely embarrassing for all involved https://t.co/tKQi7pJGQJ — David Shariatmadari (@D_Shariatmadari) March 24, 2019

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Can’t believe Boris Johnson gets a front page splash for quoting from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat when I know all of Cats off by heart and the Telegraph won’t even publish my letters. https://t.co/D5pUxhLC9D — James Chalmers (@ProfChalmers) March 24, 2019

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The full biblical ‘Moses’ quote cited by Boris Johnson is, ‘Let my people go, that they may serve me.’ Sounds very much in character: Brexit is all about me. https://t.co/GfspYHXahw — Edward Burke (@Edward__Burke) March 24, 2019

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