PM Boris Johnson admits he quit journalism for politics after ‘feeling guilty’

The Prime Minister, whose past writings have stirred accusations of racism and homophobia, made the comment while speaking to children at a school in London about how he got into politics. Having been the editor of the influential conservative magazine The Spectator, and covered the European Union as the Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent, Mr Johnson told a classroom of a moment in his life when a ‘light bulb went off in my mind’.
While a columnist and editor Mr Johnson wrote several controversial controversial pieces that have continued to dog his career, including a 1998 column about the resignation of then trade secretary Lord Mandelson which referred to gay men as ‘tank-topped bum boys’. He has also been accused of racism for comparing veiled Muslim women to ‘letter boxes’ and referring to the ‘watermelon smiles’ on the faces of ‘flag-waving piccaninnies’ during a visit by Tony Blair to Africa.

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