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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the foremost modern disruptor of European co-ordination by closing the deal on Brexit, the climax of the Euroskeptic theme the prime minister had been using to successfully promote his personal ambitions for decades, writes Les Whittington. No. 10 Downing Street photograph by Andrew Parsons

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

June 9, 2021

OTTAWA—Most of us are all too aware of the unreal, destructive story of Donald Trump. But relatively little attention has been paid to the equally bizarre tale of how the host of this year’s G7 summit, Britain’s Boris Johnson, became the foremost modern disruptor of European co-ordination by c...

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