The former British PM quit as MP in protest against investigations over his behaviour. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - Mr Boris Johnson was once likened by a member of his party to a “greased piglet” for his ability to bounce back from a succession of setbacks and scandals that would have sunk other less popular politicians.
“It is very sad to be leaving Parliament – at least for now – but above all I am bewildered and appalled that I can be forced out, anti-democratically... with such egregious bias,” he said. Even though he quit as prime minister, rumours have persisted that Mr Johnson – a thrice-married father of at least eight children – had not given up hope of another shot at the top job.Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson had a conventional rise to power for a Conservative politician: first the elite Eton College, then Oxford University.
“I didn’t like the fact he was on the right,” Ms Gaia Servadio, who died in 2021, was quoted as saying by Mr Johnson’s biographer Tom Bower.After university, he was sacked from The Times newspaper after making up a quote, then joined The Telegraph as its Brussels correspondent. He became an MP in 2004, with the Tory leader at the time, Mr Michael Howard, sacking him from his shadow Cabinet for lying about an extra-marital affair.
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