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Andrew Clark

Boris Johnson’s rise and fall are like no other

Australia’s politics operates in very different ways from Britain’s. But the UK still has a quiet prominence in Australia’s political, civil and cultural life.

Boris Johnson slumped on his seat, scoping us with his face in a semi-permanent smirk. Then a 24-year-old Brussels correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph, he was attending a press conference of his bete noire, European Commission president Jacques Delors.

Through colourful and facts-shy reporting, Johnson created a rampant European Union intent on disrupting “the British way of life”.

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Andrew Clark was a senior writer at The Australian Financial Review.

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