Posted on 02/02/2023 5:23:19 PM PST by rxsid
Could Boris Johnson run for president? ‘I don’t rule it out’
The 2024 race for the White House is on. Donald Trump is in, Nikki Haley is getting ready, Joe Biden is preparing to fend off intra-party foes – and now, Steerpike has learned of another possible entrant: former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
One of Steerpike’s Spectator colleagues in America caught up with the ex-PM at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, DC. When asked if he wanted to move from 10 Downing Street to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Johnson told the Cockburn gossip column: ‘I don’t rule it out.’
Johnson, who is visiting the US to push for additional aid to Ukraine, did not specify whether he would run as a Republican or Democrat. He did bump into Cockburn at a famous Republican haunt, but the cause he’s championing is one supported by members of both parties.
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It remains to be seen how possible – or serious – Johnson’s presidential aspirations are. The former Spectator editor renounced his American citizenship in 2016, in part to ‘ensure he is out of reach of America’s Internal Revenue Service,’ the Guardian reported. He was, however, born in New York City and so might be able to reapply.
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Sure, why not?
He’s a stupid warmonger who pretends to be a “conservative” with a leftwing dolt of a wife. We have precedent for that as President in GW Bush.
Is Carrie Symonds a U.S. citizen? Do we really want her as commander-in-chief?
This is too nonsensical even to discuss.
Was he born in the USA?
Same thing.
"Steerpike" was the guy in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast books that usurped the ritual master's position in the castle and brought it to ruin. Synonym for FJB?
Yes, it’s just trash, but interesting. I didn’t know Boris was born in the USA.
My daughter is a UK citizen via marriage. Boris considered weird by both Torries and Labour.
Sometimes, in politics, being ‘weird’ is a plus, because you are less predictable. But, if Boris would still be taking direction from his Liberal wife, that’s not weird, it’s simply being ‘whipped’ and lead around, sort of like Harry.
He was bornin Ne York, FWIW.
Foreign born. And hated. The guy says that selling out fellow Jews to the Nazis was “the best time of my life.”
He’s conservative by British standards.
He was born in New York, FWIW.
Yes, New York City, as I pointed out. For a little while there, we had a President of the United States and a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who were born in the same city.
If we’re going to elect a Brit, I’d rather have Faraage. Or maybe Daniel hannan.
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