The former prime minister and The News Agents presenter butted heads during the Channel 4 US election broadcast, which saw Donald Trump win his bid to return to the White House next year

The former Prime Minister has spoken out for the first time after his heated debate with broadcaster Emily Maitlis during Channel 4's US election coverage.

Boris Johnson has said broadcaster Emily Maitlis was getting “pretty revved up” during their Channel 4 coverage of the US election, before he left the panel unexpectedly. The former prime minister claimed he was replaced on the panel because he had to catch a flight from Washington to London,

Boris Johnson went head-to-head with BBC interviewer Emily Maitlis over his relationship with disgraced former US president, Donald Trump

Emily Maitlis eviscerated Boris Johnson during a heated back-and-forth during Channel 4’s coverage of the US election. As the votes for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump were counted, Maitlis and Krishnan Guru-Murthy welcomed a rotating series of guests,

I had the great privilege of spending US election night with Emily Maitlis as she began her gradual descent into madness. Unfortunately, I had to leave the Channel Four studio early.