Interviewed on Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4 (30 October 2005)
• On his period working as Brussels correspondent for The Daily Telegraph a few years later.
• On his period working as Brussels correspondent for The Daily Telegraph a few years later.
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I was just chucking these rocks over the garden wall, and I'd listen to this amazing crash from the greenhouse, next door, over, over in England, as everything I wrote from Brussels was having this amazing, explosive effect on the Tory Party, and, and it really gave me this, I suppose, rather weird sense of, of power.
— Boris Johnson
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I was just chucking these rocks over the garden wall, and I'd listen to this amazing crash from the greenhouse, next door, over, over in England, as everything I wrote from Brussels was having this amazing, explosive effect on the Tory Party, and, and it really gave me this, I suppose, rather weird sense of, of power." in the context of "Interviewed on Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4 (30 October 2005)
• On his period working as Brussels correspondent for The Daily Telegraph a few years later." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, journalist, and popular historian. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from July 2019 until September 2022.
About Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, journalist, and popular historian. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from July 2019 until September 2022.
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