Gooood grief, Boris Johnson isn’t going to live this incident down for a long, long time.

The British foreign secretary held a phone conversation with a prankster claiming to be the Armenian prime minister, and Johnson didn’t even realise it was a hoax until he was 18 minutes into the convo.

Yup, the man was trolled good.

It’s not clear when the call took place, but the real Armenian PM “held the talk with Mr Putin referred to on 14 May – 10 days ago”, according to a report by Sky News.

The full audio of this prank call was released on Thursday on a YouTube channel that names two famous prankster known as “Vovan and Lexus” as the culprits.

Cheeky buggers.

Take a listen to this call and have a good chuckle at the deceit, with the penny dropping right at the end when Boris drops the call:

Sounds legit, doesn’t it? The foreign accent and the bold cheekiness on the other end sells it.

The audio reveals that Johnson and the “Armenian PM” talked about Russia, Vladimir Putin and the Salisbury poisoning during the conversation:

Mr Johnson began the conversation by congratulating the hoax caller “very sincerely on your remarkable success”, believing he was talking to newly elected Armenian leader Nikol Pashinyan.

“You can definitely count on the UK and I admire your vision and what you’re trying to achieve,” he said …

Later in the call, Mr Johnson was prompted to discuss Russia.

He said that “obviously we had hoped to have better relations… than we currently do”, adding: “I’m afraid that Russia seems to be unable to resist malign activity of one kind or another.​​​​​”

Mr Johnson then appeared to laugh when the caller said he was holding a meeting with the Russian president and “hoped he will not poison me with Novichok”, the nerve agent used on Sergei and Yulia Skripal [in the Salisbury poisoning].

But the screws only started turning in Johnson’s head when the prankster claimed that the Prime Minister of Ukraine had recently been poisoned, but recovered after taking an antidote “he keeps with him always”.

That’s when Johnson decided to nope out of the call completely and put down the phone.

Downing Street has confirmed that an investigation is underway, which will “include those who were involved with the handling of the call”, and to make sure that this type of tomfoolery won’t happen again.

Ah well, at least it was fun while it lasted.

[source:skynews]