LONDON (DPA) - Britain's next prime minister is a joker, an intellectual, a chameleon, and an experienced politician who has made himself the darling of many on the right of the ruling Conservatives.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - Britain's next prime minister is a joker, an intellectual, a chameleon, and an experienced politician who has made himself the darling of many on the right of the ruling Conservatives.
His supreme self-confidence, intellectual vanity and desire to please were forged in an outstanding education in which he rose to head boy of Eton, one of Britain's top private schools, and president of Oxford University's famous Oxford Union debating society. He has insisted in recent interviews that he will no longer discuss his private life, amid intense media focus following a row at home with his girlfriend, which was recorded by a neighbour and given to a newspaper.
Mr Pascal Lamy, who was chief adviser to then European Commission president Jacques Delors in the 1990s, said Mr Johnson's reports"looked so jokey, so silly, so fake". While still writing and editing for the pro-Conservative magazine, Mr Johnson stood as a parliamentary candidate for the party, winning the safe seat of Henley in 2001.
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