A former Brussels journalist and mayor of London, Johnson cultivates a clownish public image but also caused deep offence in the European Union during the referendum campaign by comparing its aims to unify Europe to those of Adolf Hitler.
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The world has reacted to the appointment of Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson as UK’s Foreign Secretary.
He said France needed a negotiating partner who was credible and reliable.
Papua New Guinea’s High Commissioner in London was not happy.
On a trip to Tokyo in 2015 he wiped out a 10-year-old schoolboy during a game of touch rugby, and in May he won a £1,000 prize for a poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan having sex with a goat.
US Secretary of State John Kerry called his new British counterpart Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Thursday as the anti-EU minister’s appointment raised heckles in Europe.
Many British commentators questioned the wisdom of insulting the leader of Britain’s most important ally.
In France, Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault Thursday branded his British counterpart a liar.
Ayrault also predicted that Johnson has an uphill struggle ahead of him remarking that “now it’s him with his back against the wall to defend his country and to clarify his relationship with Europe”.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier has previously criticized Johnson and other leading backers of Britain’s exit from the EU.
“She’s got dyed blonde hair and pouty lips, and a steely blue stare, like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital”.
Unfortunately this positive approach to worldwide relations was dampened when he compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to a Harry Potter character. “I was in NY and some photographers were trying to take a picture of me and a girl walked down the pavement towards me and she stopped and she said, ‘Gee, is that Trump?'”
In Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov voiced hopes that “the weightiness of his current position, of course, will certainly prompt a somewhat different rhetoric of a more diplomatic nature”. “Dear world. Sorry”, with a front page picture of Johnson stuck on a zip wire holding two British flags, from the London 2012 Olympics. Michael Eboda, editor of the now defunct New Nation, a newspaper aimed at the black British community, told Johnson “Some of the articles and comments you’ve put together have been extraordinarily abusive of black people”. The treachery left Johnson out of the Conservative leadership race.
May’s move – bravery or folly, time will tell – means Johnson will be able to command TV news coverage with a series of foreign trips. While in Parliament, he offended an entire British city when he complained that people from Liverpool were wallowing in “victim status” after a Liverpudlian was taken hostage and slain in Iraq.
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Vucic added that he recently met Johnson in London, and that Serbia now wants to be the host to the former London mayor in his new role – and that the same goes for Britain’s new prime minister, Theresa May.
