Boris Johnson, Brexit cheerleader, to become Britain’s next prime minister
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Having decisively won the race to lead the Conservative Party on Tuesday, Boris Johnson will be Britain’s next prime minister within a day. He will immediately face the buzzsaw of Brexit — and he comes into office as controversial, not especially well-liked by most Brits.
Johnson — a bombastic, Latin-quoting, Oxford classicist with a mop of intentionally mussed yellow hair — made his name as an over-the-top journalist in Brussels and then as London mayor. He galvanized the successful Brexit campaign in 2016 — which won him many fans and many enemies.
He will walk through the black enameled door of 10 Downing St. on Wednesday, fulfilling what his biographers describe as his relentless “blond ambition” to follow his hero, Winston Churchill, into the top spot.
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