Around the world, Boris Johnson has in the past caused raised eyebrows and outrage with his outspoken comments. But it is in Africa, in particular, that he has shocked many with language considered to be racist and offensive.
Lagos, Nigeria Boris Johnson has emerged as the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after a leadership contest and could prove to be as divisive a figure in Britain as President Trump is in the United States.
The announcement of his premiership has been met with groans in some quarters and the inevitable comparisons to President Trump have been made. On the social media platform Twitter, many are using the hashtag #NotmyPM to express their dismay at the news. Today the UK has sent a message to the world that you can be sacked for lying , be derided as unfit for office by your ex-boss, have used racist language multiple times, but as long as you went to Eton and Oxford, 0.
— Linda Green July 23, 2019 Around the world, Johnson, Britain's gaffe-prone former foreign secretary,has in the past caused raised eyebrows and outrage with his outspoken comments.But it is in Africa, in particular, that he has shocked many with language considered to be racist and offensive. Johnson, who was a member of the British Parliament at the time he made some of these comments in 2002, apologized while on the campaign trail for the London mayoral elections in 2008.
— CNN Africa August 30, 2018 Because of their combative history, May could be forgiven for indulging in a moment of schadenfreude: Johnson had been one of her fiercest political rivals and he resigned from her Cabinet over disagreements over her Brexit strategy. As he embarks on a post-Brexit world where shoring up trade interests with Commonwealth countries will be paramount, Britain's next Prime Minister appears to have his work cut out for him in impressing African leaders.
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