LEON NEAL
Boris Johnson spent most of his life dreaming of becoming Britain’s prime minister after humbly downscaling his childhood ambition of being “world king.” Less than three years after he achieved his goal, he’s been bundled out of office in arguably the most humiliating circumstances of any PM after being savaged by his own ministers who went on record to say they couldn’t take any more of his bare-faced lies.
Johnson likes to think of himself as a British history buff. Obsessed with Winston Churchill, he had perhaps fantasized about leading a country through a generation-defining crisis more often than anyone. He may have thought his call of duty was to see through the Brexit project—one which he led and officially completed in 2020 but that mess continues to unravel as he reportedly prepared to announce that he would resign on Friday. He will now go down in history as one of Britain’s worst prime ministers.
The 58-year-old became one of Britain’s most high-profile politicians long before he held any real power. His controversial journalism career, followed by his appearances on television panel game shows during his early years in politics, saw him become a household name. Johnson’s bumbling, clownish persona and ramshackle appearance made it easy for him to stick out from the dusty gray relics who sat next to him on the benches of Parliament.