British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson refuses to apologize for withering one-liners he’s made about world leaders in the past, but wins the support of Britain’s closest ally as the country navigates its difficult path out of the European Union.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, left, and US Secretary of State John Kerry joke together during a press conference at the Foreign Office in London, Tuesday, July 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, pool)
Hosting US Secretary of State John Kerry in London, Johnson says people are “free to rake over” his past comments but that it would “take too long to engage in a full global itinerary of apology” to all those who might have been offended in the past by his “rich thesaurus” of comments, many made in his regular newspaper columns.
Johnson, who was appointed to his new job last week, says he is now focusing on dealing with issues like the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Syria and the troubles in Yemen.
“Those to my mind are far more important than any obiter dicta that you may disinter [from] 30 years of journalism,” Johnson says, referring to a term used in law to denote an incidental remark.
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