The 77-year-old appeared on Good Morning Britain earlier today to discuss the impact Theresa May’s new plastic pledge will have on the country’s landscape.
However, talk turned to his very famous son, Boris, who is currently the secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs.
He ran for leader of the Conservative Party in 2016, but dropped out following Michael Gove’s announcement that he too would stand.
Sister, Rachel Johnson, told the Celebrity Big Brother house earlier this week that it was the current environment secretary’s late arrival to the race that caused him to withdraw.
Today, Stanley awkwardly confirmed Rachel’s opinion to be true, as he told presenters Susanna Reid and Ben Shephard: “I heard her say what she said and I think she probably knows the numbers.
“So I think she was just making a factual statement,” he stuttered.
What’s more, Susanna pushed Stanley, to find out if Boris should have continued with his campaign – something that the father tried to avoid.
He dodged: “That was for Boris to decide. I’d love to see all of my children as prime minister, a whole dynasty!
What’s more, Stanley confessed that he had “three words” for anyone that called him for comment about Boris’s withdrawal: “Et tu, Brute?”
The quote, which comes from William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, is used at a pivotal point in the play when titular Julius is stabbed in the back by those he thought were loyal and devout to him.
It has since come to signify a questioning of loyalty with friends and colleagues, and was as such clocked by Susanna, 47, who grilled Stanley on his use of the term.
However, Stanley turned the conversation back to recycling before the interview came to an end.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV from 6am.
