![]() The party should be “bold” and “let the British lion roar,” he told his audience, exultant at this latest invocation of the great wartime leader. It did not involve offering ideas to solve the national crisis, but a tub-thumping rendition of old Churchill oratorical favourites. ![]() Geddit?Īt party conference, Johnson had an answer to the glum mood. Churchill spent years creating lakes at Chartwell and loved to show them off to his visitors. Churchill was famous for conducting diplomacy at his own country retreat, Chartwell, a mere six miles away. ![]() Or rather it was about Churchill and Boris. In October, newspaper photographers were called to the foreign secretary’s grace and favour country residence, Chevening, to capture him messing around on boats with a bemused group of foreign ministers from Eastern Europe. Boris Johnson before signing copies of his new book 'The Churchill Factor.' Photo: PAīoris Johnson has consistently invited us to compare him with that historical titan, Winston Churchill. ![]()
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