Hanging from a cable, playing rugby or riding the bull. The flamboyant Conservative elected British Prime Minister last Friday never misses a chance to appear in front of a camera.
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The best images of Boris Johnson's political life |
1. Before succeeding Theresa May in July this year as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson was Mayor of London (2008 to 2016). In this image, Johnson flies over the city of Hong Kong on October 17, 2017.
2. Johnson’s campaign slogan, Get Brexit Done (“let’s do Brexit”), was pointed out as one of the main factors in the victory, as it took advantage of the population’s wear and tear on the issue since its approval in the 2016 referendum. , the Conservative leader eats an ice cream with the flags of the United Kingdom and Wales on Barry Island.
3. Johnson takes the opportunity to appear whenever he has the opportunity to take a picture for the media. On this occasion of the image, he drives a military vehicle in Orzysz, in northwest Poland, during a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
4. In the image, the prime minister dribbles past a boy playing rugby at a tournament on the streets of Tokyo in 2015.
5. Johnson attends a history lesson for six-year-olds during his visit to a primary school in London this September. The politician attended the elite Eton School as a child and later studied at Oxford University.
6. Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London, hung from a cable during an event to promote the London Olympics in Victoria Park.
7. When Johnson left London City Hall in 2016, his popularity was high. A YouGov poll commissioned that year found that 52% of Londoners thought they had done a "good job" as mayor. Johnson's successor in office was Labour's Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of a major European capital. Pictured is Boris Johnson in 2011.
8. Boris Johnson participates in 2015, as Mayor of London, in Remembrance Day, which honors soldiers killed in World War I. The money raised in these celebrations goes to the Armed Forces.
9. Johnson tries to take during a visit to a farm near Aberdeen, Scotland, on September 6.
10. Johnson visits Madame Tussauds in May 2009 to see her wax reproduction.