The London mayor is so ambitious he even wants to win a schoolboy game. But politics is not genuine life – and his opponents will not be so easy to tackleIs this the famous Churchill factor that Boris Johnson has written about – the quality of leadership that sets a noteworthy politician apart? Or is it an unmistakable exposure of the kind of silliness that must acquire the Labour party praying Johnson becomes the next leader of the Conservative party?Boris Johnson’s hero,Winston Churchill, fought in India and the Sudan, and was taken prisoner in the Boer war. Johnson himself recently offered to take part in a brigade of art lovers to defend antiquities in Syria. In reality,however, here he is in a set of risible images knocking down a 10-year-veteran Japanese boy in a game of touch rugby.
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Source: theguardian.com