He supercharged his career with anti-EU lies, now BoJo has ridden Brexit into 10 Downing St.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s free-form approach can be seen as far back as the mid-1980s when he switched his stance from conservative to social democrat to win the presidency of the prestigious Oxford Union.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, pictured arriving at 10 Downing St. on July 24, has surrounded himself with hard-line Brexiteers and is courting economic suicide by vowing to take the U.K. out of the EU with or without a deal on Oct. 31, writes Les Whittington.Photograph courtesy of the British Prime Minister’s Office

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

July 31, 2019

OTTAWA—For anyone concerned about what U.S. President Donald Trump’s ascendancy says about the state of western democracy, the story of Boris Johnson’s rise to British prime minister only makes it all the more disturbing. By all accounts a con man with no sense of principle or conviction othe...

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