"""Precocious associate editor and columnist for the Daily Telegraph, 32-year-old [Boris] Johnson has been called the "rising star of the write, not right". After indulging his taste for politics and intrigue as president of the Oxford Union, Boris exercised his "belief in freedom" as a journalist, Eurobashing and penning paeans to British "ordinariness". Not shy in clashing with party lines, Boris would "renegotiate EU membership so Britain stands to Europe as Canada, not Texas, stands to the USA". Pericles, state-builder and negotiator of Athenian autonomy, is his hero."""[1] (February 1997)

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-cabinet...