Beware Boris Johnson’s lust for the limelight and power

Boris Johnson, with his Factfinder book on the shelf. Photograph: Neville Elder/Corbis/Getty ImagesPerhaps those Conservatives who are voting for a prospective prime minister and Brexit negotiator should seriously consider their positions in view of Boris Johnson’s background, which seems to have formed his unreliable and quite worrying character (‘He was the paramount of exaggeration and distortion and lies. He was a clown’, 15 July). In 1989 Lord Hanney, Britain’s ambas