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Jul 13th 2016, 8:04 pm

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Re: Boris Johnson

I thought he gave up his US citizenship a couple of years ago , partly through having to file annual income returns.

Jul 13th 2016, 8:07 pm

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Re: Boris Johnson

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Boris Johnson reveals his bold foreign policy strategy

Country fairs and air shows, not a bad place to start.

Jul 13th 2016, 8:17 pm

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Re: Boris Johnson

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Seems to me if you are setting up your Cabinet to fail, you will go down in flames yourself.

That's certainly a danger, but one she may be prepared to take...

Jul 13th 2016, 8:37 pm

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Re: Boris Johnson

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Country fairs and air shows, not a bad place to start.

Well, I reckon you have to work for it. Who knows, after a few years of publicity stunts, maybe someday they'll take him seriously.

His brother has been surprisingly successful with that.

Jul 13th 2016, 10:44 pm

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Jul 13th 2016, 10:57 pm

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Re: Boris Johnson

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Originally Posted by md95065

Yes, my assumption was that she thought that it was safer to give him something to do and keep him busy in a place where she could keep her eye on him rather than have him sitting on the back benches, sulking and plotting his next move.

I think its a clever move - not letting him run away from the mess he made. He's now in charge of restoring our international reputation - either he shows now how clever he actually is (speaks several european languages) or he cocks it up completely and quickly and May has made her point and she gives it to someone else.

Another interesting point - don't the intelligence services report into the Foreign office?

Jul 14th 2016, 1:03 am

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Re: Boris Johnson

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I thought he gave up his US citizenship a couple of years ago , partly through having to file annual income returns.

There are multiple reports that he "declared" that he was going to do so, but I can find no reports that he actually did. However a US citizen who renounces his/her US citizenship is assessed an "exit tax" which for a millionaire can be a very substantial amount of money, so given that Boris tried to baulk at paying US taxes, I have a sneaking suspicion that when he discovered the likely tax bill he may have changed his mind.