Boris Johnson [link]

Russian-Jewish maternal heritage. Paternal great grandfather Ottoman minister, assassinated. Father studied economy at U. Columbia, NYC, worked for the European commission and in 2015 republished a 1982 novel on a pandemic. Johnson lived in Brussels for a couple of years during childhood. Returned to Brussels in his twenties as a reporter. Eurosceptic reporting but exaggerated and often focused on detail. As a PM he appointed Indian Rishi Sunak (MBA from Stanford) for Chancellor and later, in a vote for conservative party leader/PM, Johnson first entered the election as a candidate but later withdrew his candidacy, in practice making Sunak the new PM.

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