4 Jul 2019

What does the world think of Boris Johnson?

Political Editor

He says his high point was organising the international condemnation of Russia after the Salisbury poisoning.

He’s the favourite to become our next Prime Minister in just three weeks’ time. But Boris Johnson has only held one ministerial post – a two year stint as Foreign Secretary.

Critics say the low point was his handling of Nazanin Zagari Radcliffe’s imprisonment in an Iranian jail.

He says his high point was organising the international condemnation of Russia after the Salisbury poisoning.

He wasn’t given responsibility for Brexit but that didn’t keep him away from Europe – so what did his counterparts make of him?