Depending on who tells it, gasps, shudders or dismissive laughter spread through the ornate Locarno rooms at the Foreign Office as the news broke. The news, of course, being that one of the first Cabinet appointments announced by the new Prime Minister was that of Boris Johnson to be foreign secretary and, as such, the country's chief diplomat. Diplomat? you might splutter; the buffoon who brought us the racial slight on the President of the United States, who has used words like “piccaninnies” in print and who felled a Japanese child while trying to join in a rugby game?
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