Is Boris Johnson running the country?

[The Don]

I almost choked on my afternoon coffee when I read that !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/37086680

I hope that Bettridge's law of headlines applies.

Prime Minister Theresa May is currently off duty and on holiday, taking the alpine air of Switzerland.

Mr May is known to have a love of Lucerne, the Bernese Oberland and the resort of Zermatt, with its views of the Matterhorn.

Can't fault the PM on her choice of destination.

Mr Hammond, affectionately nicknamed "Box Office Phil" by reporters, for his capacity for less than riveting public appearances, is seen as the very personification of a "safe pair of hands".

It's not a phrase used quite so often about Boris Johnson.

Yet the foreign secretary is the "senior minister on duty" in the UK.

I really hope nothing "interesting" happens on his watch.

 

[p0lka]

If anything does happen, I hope he doesn't looked shocked and run away like he did last time.

 

[catsmate]

I notice that there's a bit of a power struggle going on between the three departments handling Great over responsibilities.

 

[Francesca R]

I thought it was spreadsheet Phil . . .

 

[Trebuchet]

If you're up for a trade, we'll gladly take Boris if you take Trump.

 

[catsmate]

If you're up for a trade, we'll gladly take Boris if you take Trump.

He's already a USAian, remember?

 

[Craig B]

If you're up for a trade, we'll gladly take Boris if you take Trump.

You can take Boris's hair, and we'll take Trump's and our boffins can try to find out what it's made of.

 

[megaresp]

Yet the foreign secretary is the "senior minister on duty" in the UK.

I almost choked on my afternoon coffee when I read that !



I really hope nothing "interesting" happens on his watch.

Well that's where we differ. I really hope something does.

 

[abaddon]

You can take Boris's hair, and we'll take Trump's and our boffins can try to find out what it's made of.

Dead squirrels.

 

[ddt]

He's already a USAian, remember?

I thought he had renounced his American citizenship?

 

[Dave Rogers]

If you're up for a trade, we'll gladly take Boris if you take Trump.

That actually made me feel good about having Boris.

Dave

 

[Parsman]

I almost choked on my afternoon coffee when I read that !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/37086680
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I had to read this as Johnson is ruining the country...

 

[McHrozni]

I think there was a word missing from the title: "from".

McHrozni

 

[catsmate]

I thought he had renounced his American citizenship?

Nope, he just said he would, to "prove his loyalty to the UK".
Last year...

 

[The Don]

Nope, he just said he would, to "prove his loyalty to the UK".
Last year...

I thought he had renounced his citizenship but every article I can find just says that he intends to do it, not that he has done so.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Will the USA let him go before he pays his bills?

 

[catsmate]

Will the USA let him go before he pays his bills?

I thought he'd regularised his tax affairs with the USA? If he renounces his US citizenship he'd have to do so at a US embassy or consulate and they won't allow a renunciation without him paying in full.

 

[The Don]

I thought he'd regularised his tax affairs with the USA? If he renounces his US citizenship he'd have to do so at a US embassy or consulate and they won't allow a renunciation without him paying in full.

Good luck to him with that. Mrs Don is in the process of trying to get this sorted - it's a nightmare not least because, since the U.S. does not recognise the validity of U.K. tax free savings vehicles, there will be a lot to pay

 

[Yalius]

Are you trying to tell me that two of the highest-ranking politicians in the UK government are named May and Hammond? Please don't tell me there's a shadow minister named Clarkson.

 

[Manger Douse]

Please don't tell me there's a shadow minister named Clarkson.

It might well be the Clarkson

http://news.sky.com/story/jeremy-clarkson-considering-bid-to-be-mp-10434331