Thursday, 14. July 2016
Topic: POLITIK - on July 14, 2016 at 4:43:00 PM CEST
Boris Johnson: How Britain's new foreign secretary has insulted the world
In case you have just emerged from a desert island or a long sleep: the UK has a new prime minister, Theresa May, who in turn has appointed a new foreign secretary. The man who will be representing Britain's interests abroad is Boris Johnson. Yes, that Boris Johnson, the tousle-haired, barrel-bellied engineer of the UK's exit from the EU. It's an appointment that's been treated with some shock around the world - not least because he has been less than diplomatic about other countries and their leaders before. Some of his positions, often outlined in his newspaper columns, also risk clashing with his own government's official stance.
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