Johnson's hypocrisy on the free press is far more recent than the Darius Guppy case.
“As a former journalist I am alarmed that worldwide attacks on journalists are rife and increasing,” said Boris Johnson as UK foreign minister, back in 2017.
“Where governments fear freedom of expression they often try to shut down media and civil society, or clip their wings.”
In February 2020, Lee Cain, stopped members of certain press outlets from attending a press briefing by Johnson which led to other journalists walking out in protest.
Journalists from the Independent, Guardian and Mirror were told that any questions they asked at the Dominic Cummings Press conference after Barnard Castle would not be answered.
Boris Johnson refusing to attend various interviews, press conferences and even his own constituency hustings because he does not want to talk to the Press.
Banning any journalist from asking questions regarding the Covid vaccine at several Press conferences.
The Arrest of a journalist outside a Asylum Camp in Kent for breaching Covid guidelines despite him working alone and journalists being free to work during lockdown as a key profession.
The delays and non delivery for Freedom of Information requests area at a record level.
Government Minister Kemi Badenoch calling out journalist Nadine White for asking her questions regarding BAME attitudes towards the vaccine roll out.
The Ice Sculpture that replaced Johnson as he refused to attend a Televised climate change debate.
I'll leave the last word on Johnson's hypocrisy to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) an organisation that exists to fight for and maintain press freedoms who called Johnson's response to criticism in the media as 'vindictive' and 'the erosion of press freedom in the UK is being driven by a government insistent on silencing media dissent'.