Boris Johnson likes to see himself as Winston Churchill. We know this because he wrote a whole book about him, and himself. “He was eccentric, over the top, camp, with his own special trademark clothes — and a thoroughgoing genius,” Johnson wrote about Churchill, and himself. “From his very emergence as a young Tory MP he had bashed and satirised his own party . He did behave with a death-defying self-belief, and go farther out on a limb than anyone else might…

Source: The Times June 12, 2019 08:03 UTC