The key to understanding Johnson, say his biographers, lifelong observers, friends and enemies in a dozen interviews with The Washington Post, is to see him first as a hack — the self-deprecating but not pejorative Britishism for a working journalist shoveling reams of copy to his masters on deadline.
Boris Johnson, Britain’s Likely Next Prime Minister, Is A Hack — A Journalist Who Has Reached The Pinnacle Of Power
By William Booth and Karla Adam, Washington Post: World
Fri, 07/19/2019 - 11:05pm
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