Boris Johnson had forged an image of himself as a jovial, wisecracking mophead but after a few weeks as Britain's Brexit Prime Minister, the winning smile gave way this week to a scowl and a waggin...
Boris Johnson had forged an image of himself as a jovial, wisecracking mophead but after a few weeks as Britain’s Brexit Prime Minister, the winning smile gave way this week to a scowl and a wagging finger as his ruthless streak emerged.
Sarah Wollaston, an MP with the anti-Brexit Liberal Democrat party, is among those who have accused Johnson of “behaving like a tin pot dictator” rather than a lovable buffoon. Failure in the coming weeks could see him consigned to history as Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister.Johnson sacked 21 Tory MPs from the party for voting against the government in a parliamentary vote on Brexit on Tuesday.
But he has long been a polarising figure, disliked by pro-EU voters as the figurehead of a referendum campaign marked by what they say were exaggerated claims about the EU.“Where gravitas and grasp of detail were needed, Johnson supplied bon mots,” the Chatham House think-tank said. In 2008, harnessing his celebrity status to reach across the political divide, he was elected as mayor of multi-ethnic, Labour-voting London.
His campaign was only briefly derailed by headlines about a police visit to his home following a noisy row with his girlfriend, Carrie Symonds.
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