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Boris And the Virus: Can a Brilliant Blusterer Lead?

Elected the UK’s PM to complete Brexit, he’s been slow to act on coronavirus

Mar 25, 2020
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By: John Elliott

Boris Johnson, Britain’s usually blustering but canny prime minister, faces the biggest test of his gilded life. His winning charm has enabled him so far to glide effortlessly from Eton to Oxford and on to journalism and then to politics.

Along the way, he has been a jokey Mayor of London and an irresponsibly flippant Foreign Secretary. H…

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