Daily Mail ‘approaches Boris Johnson for column’

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August 15, 2022

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In brief: Boris Johnson has been approached by The Daily Mail to write a column for the paper when he leaves Downing Street, according to reports in The Guardian.

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Ella Sagar Ella Sagar is a reporter for The Media Leader and leads our audio and out-of-home coverage. She joined in September 2021 and has a gold standard NCTJ. She previously wrote for the South West Londoner, Ealing Times, and The Hillingdon Times. At the University of Leeds, she received a First Class Honours Degree in French and Spanish with distinction in speaking and during her time there regularly presented radio shows on Leeds Student Radio, wrote for the student paper The Gryphon and was editor of Her Campus Leeds.

Boris Johnson has been approached by The Daily Mail to write a column for the paper when he leaves Downing Street, according to reports in The Guardian.

Johnson started his journalist career at The Times in 1987, and was fired for fabricating a quote, before moving to The Telegraph as Brussels correspondent, and then political columnist between 1989 and 1999. He then moved to The Spectator as an editor between 1999 and 2005, before being elected as an MP

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