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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

Boris Johnson boasts he'll cash in on career 'hiatus' despite still being an MP

Boris Johnson has boasted he'll cash in on the "unexpected hiatus" in his career - despite still being an MP.

In a rambling article in the Spectator, the ousted Prime Minister said that "one of the joys of a recent career change" is he now has time to recite Classical texts as he goes on long jogs around London.

The greedy dad-of-seven, who has trousered £1million in speeches since he was chucked out, compared the plague at the start of the Iliad - Homer's epic poem from 8th Century BC - to Covid.

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