Boris Johnson. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
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Meet Boris Johnson – here’s why he is a future UK PM
Political insiders in London say Boris Johnson is brilliant but lazy. This is reflected in an insistence on taking his own counsel.
By Alec Hogg
LONDON – Modern biographers have an unfortunate habit of accentuating the negative. You'll quickly pick that up, for instance, in Walter Isaacson book on Steve Jobs and in Alice Schroder's lengthy analysis of Warren Buffett called Snowball.
It's almost as if the authors are so concerned with retaining their neutrality, that they insist on raising random unflattering facts to ensure their own reputation is intact. I expected and duly pickled up a similar approach in Andrew Grimson's best-selling and recently updated biography on Boris Johnson, the charismatic British politician who almost became the post-Brexit vote Prime Minister.
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