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My debt to Boris Johnson

23 July 2022

9:00 AM

23 July 2022

9:00 AM

Back in 1997 when I was narked on by a fellow journalist (Simon Walters, currently of the Times, then of the Express) for taking class As on the Prime Minister’s press plane, I sought to restore my reputation by giving an interview to a maverick young libertarian on the Telegraph.

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