IMAGINE the scene: a theatre at Eton College, an expectant audience awaits a production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, and, playing the titular, hunchbacked villain, one Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, aged 18. However, Johnson arrives on stage woefully under-rehearsed and incapable of remembering his lines.
Will the young Etonian be booed off stage or will he, as he will later do throughout his colourful political career, play the clown and turn the situation to his own advantage?
