Britain's former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now a columnist for the Daily Mail newspaper, the paper announced on Friday, in a return to a journalistic career that has seen him write for several leading British titles, but never far from controversy. Johnson, 58, who stood down as a lawmaker last week over an inquiry that found him guilty of deliberately misleading Parliament over parties during COVID-19 lockdowns, will write for the Daily Mail every Saturday, the newspaper said. Since resigning as prime minister last year, Johnson, one of Britain's best-known and most divisive politicians, has gone on to earn millions of pounds from speaking tours. He went on to have a career at the Daily Telegraph, where as a Brussels correspondent he lambasted the European Union in vivid if not always accurate prose. He later pursued parallel media and political careers as editor of the Spectator magazine and as a member of Parliament, and before becoming prime minister wrote a regular column for the Daily Telegraph.

Source: Daily Mail June 16, 2023 23:00 UTC