"The headquarters of the European Union will be destroyed with explosives."
On the front page of the
Daily Telegraph
in 1991, the article was signed by the newspaper's young correspondent in Brussels, a certain Boris Johnson.
In another edition, the author explains that instead of the imposing building eaten away by asbestos, a tower of Babel 2 kilometers high will be erected.
Thirty years later, asbestos-free, the Berlaymont is still there.
The British left the European ship, led by the same Boris Johnson.
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According to his advisers in Downing Street, the Prime Minister runs the country, notebook in hand, like an editor: sniffing out in events the best "angle" to sell to the population.
As a journalist, the one whose political career will be marked for history by Brexit was already a master in the art of
storytelling
.
At the cost, often, of small (or large) arrangements with the truth.
"Charlatan"
Freshly graduated from Oxford in Classics in 1987, Boris
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