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Is Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the conjuror who has ‘manipulated, threatened, cajoled and charmed his way through the business of government’, about to face his reckoning? AP
Is Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the conjuror who has ‘manipulated, threatened, cajoled and charmed his way through the business of government’, about to face his reckoning? AP
Boris Johnson is a master escapologist but the final act is about to begin
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John Kampfner
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John Kampfner is the author of 'Why The Germans Do It Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country'
25 January, 2022