Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson was unveiled Friday as the Daily Mail’s new star columnist – but attracted an immediate rebuke from a government watchdog to cap a tumultuous 48 hours. In a video posted by the Mail, former journalist Johnson said he was “thrilled” to contribute to “those illustrious pages”, vowing to deliver “completely unexpurgated stuff”. The anti-immigrant, anti-woke, Brexit-supporting Mail has long been one of Johnson and the Conservative party’s most vocal and uncritical backers. But if he chooses to return to more heavyweight political subjects, Johnson now has a high-profile platform to pursue his vendetta against Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. But Johnson only informed ACOBA half an hour before the Daily Mail posted its announcement on social media, a spokeswoman for the committee said.

Source: Daily Mail June 18, 2023 09:18 UTC