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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Benjamin Cooper

Tory peer: Boris Johnson said foreign secretary job like being in ‘steel condom’

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Former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has said Boris Johnson described his time as foreign secretary as like being “imprisoned in a steel condom”.

Mr Johnson became foreign secretary in 2016 and resigned in 2018 over Theresa May’s Brexit plans, but not before first attracting criticism for making comments Richard Ratcliffe said “enabled a propaganda campaign” against his British-Iranian wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who was being held in Tehran.

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