Former Prime Minister David Cameron was described as a “girly swot” by Boris Johnson on a private Cabinet paper leaked last week. In the handwritten note, dated August 16 and obtained by Sky News, Mr Johnson revealed what he really thinks of his predecessor. The Prime Ministr wrote: “The whole September session is a rigmarole introduced by girly swot Cameron and show the public that MPs are earning their crust.”

It is not the first time Mr Johnson used the phrase ‘girly swot’ against Mr Cameron, who is preparing to publish his memoirs.

The ex-Prime Minister is about to emerge after from three years of purdah in order to promote his long-delayed biography, For The Record.

It is not a given the book will receive a warm reception though.

Large swathes of Britons see him as the man who ordered a referendum on a bewilderingly complex issue of profound national importance, simply to hold his the Conservatives together.

Out of the 245 pages, it will be the ones on Brexit and the EU that will inevitably monopolise the attention.

Despite strongly campaigning for Remain during the 2016 referendum though, his relationship with the bloc has never been the best.

According to 2011 report by the Financial Times, following Michel Barnier’s appointment as Internal Market Commissioner, Mr Cameron went as far as to say that the Frenchman was part of a Paris-led conspiracy to hurt Britain.

The Prime Minister believed that Mr Barnier and his backers had been using the regulatory system to sap London’s strength as a Europe’s financial centre.

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The former Prime Minister told the FT at the time: “The French wouldn’t have us trying to move their aerospace industry to Poland, so I’m not having them trying to move our financial services industry to Frankfurt – forget it.”

Moreover, during a speech at the 2011 Commonwealth summit in Australia, the ex-Etonian leader claimed London was “under constant attack through Brussels directives.”

Asked whether he felt those “attacks” were deliberately designed to undermine London’s global status, he replied: “Sometimes it’s necessary to have regulation but the regulation is badly drafted, badly formed and it doesn’t necessarily reflect what large financial centres like London need.

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“And of course, all countries in Europe pursue their national interests. Would the French and the Germans like a larger share of financial services in Paris and Frankfurt?

“Of course they would.

“I want to make sure we keep them in London.”

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