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Editor's note
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The UK gets a new prime minister today, in the artfully dishevelled form of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. The journalist-turned-mayor-turned-MP-turned-terrible foreign secretary has finally beaten a path to Downing Street, and what a litany of unhappy people he has left in his wake.
Johnson’s brand is the loveable buffoon, the court jester, but several key incidents over the years remind us that underneath the froth, he is often careless with others and not averse to playing fast and loose with the truth when it suits him. It’s all terribly funny – until it isn’t.
Johnson was the favourite of Conservative Party members – and his chapter as prime minister has yet to be written – but many of his parliamentary colleagues are vehemently opposed to the populist, no-deal Brexit plan he has touted to get the job. And with the rest of the House of Commons threatening to block him, there are choppy waters ahead.
Welcome, Prime Minister Johnson, it’s now your moment to prove it’s all been worth the trouble.
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Laura Hood
Politics Editor, Assistant Editor
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