06-04-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com

Boris Johnson’s Stand-In as U.K. Premier Is a Blunt Former Lawyer

(Bloomberg) -- The man at the helm of the British government while Boris Johnson is hospitalized, Dominic Raab, is a former foreign office lawyer who trained so hard at karate he had to have a hip replacement in his mid-30s.It’s a testament to a kind of determination that can sometimes go to excess.Raab, 46, has been in Parliament since 2010, but he struggled to rise under former Prime Minister David Cameron. Instead, he became a troublemaker, asking awkward questions of the government and
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