Boris Johnson returns to journalism, will get ‘new job’ days after quitting as UK MP | World News

Former prime minister Boris Johnson was named as a model new columnist for the Daily Mail newspaper on Friday, in a return to a journalistic career that has seen him write for numerous major British titles and sacked from one for making up a quote.

Johnson, 58, who stood down as a lawmaker remaining week over an inquiry which found him accountable of deliberately misleading parliament over occasions all through COVID-19 lockdowns, will write for the Daily Mail every Saturday, the newspaper talked about.

“Whether or not or not you're a Boris fan or not, it’s going to be required learning – every in Westminster and for tons of of 1000's the world over,” the paper talked about.

Since resigning as prime minister remaining yr, Johnson, one in all Britain’s most interesting acknowledged and most divisive politicians, has gone on to earn tons of of 1000's of kilos from speaking excursions.

His return to journalism is predicted to be a worthwhile new job and offers the earlier chief a automotive in one in all Britain’s most widely-read right-leaning newspapers to particular his views on the federal authorities and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

He resigned as a lawmaker with a blistering assault on a parliamentary committee which dominated he had deliberately misled parliament collectively along with his accounts of rule-breaking occasions. Parliament will resolve whether or not or to not approve the committee’s findings on Monday.

He moreover used his assertion to take a swipe at Sunak, saying the nation wished a “appropriately Conservative authorities” that will reduce enterprise and personal taxes.

Johnson, no stranger to scandal, started his working life in journalism, nonetheless was sacked by the Events newspaper for making up a quote. He went on to have a career on the Daily Telegraph, the place as a Brussels correspondent he lambasted the European Union in vivid if not always appropriate prose.

He later pursued parallel media and political careers as editor of the Spectator journal and as a member of parliament, and sooner than turning into prime minister wrote an on a regular basis column for the Daily Telegraph. That column normally observed him criticised for his views – he was accused of Islamophobia when he talked about Muslim women who placed on burqas appeared like letter packing containers or monetary establishment robbers.