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News and Sport

Brace yourself, Britain,

for a long stint of bad

government

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Now we know:

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can be funny

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Booker prize

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this year’s longlist – before

it has even been released

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The one that I want

Olivia Newton-John on

selling those skintight

trousers

Page 8

Not cricket

Ireland deserve their place

in the Test sun, not in shade

at Lords says Andy Bull

Page 35

Shop til they drop

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explores work in an

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Johnson embarks on

charm off ensive to

woo Tory sceptics

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National

Tory leadership

a blow last night by Donald Trump,

however, as the US president labelled

the former mayor of London “Britain

Trump”.

“He’s tough and smart ... They’re

calling him Britain Trump. And people

are saying that’s a good thing. They like

me over there,” he said.

An early appointment to Johnson’s

Downing Street team also highlighted

his tendency for controversy. Labour

seized on his decision to make the Sky

executive Andrew Griffi th an adviser

after he lent the Back Boris campaign

team his townhouse as an HQ.

“It’s blindingly obvious – Boris

Johnson and his government will act

only in the interest of the wealthy

elite,” said the shadow cabinet offi ce

minister Jon Trickett. Speaking after

the result was announced at a slick

event in Westminster, where the

audience was treated to a montage of

former Conservative leaders, includ-

ing Winston Churchill and Margaret

Thatcher, Johnson returned to his

campaign promise to “deliver Brexit,

unite the country and defeat Jeremy

Corbyn”.

Saying “some wag” had pointed

out that this spelled “dud”, he joked

that the fi nal e – “E for energise” – had

been left out. “I say to all the doubt-

ers: dude, we are going to energise the

country!” He said he would “get Brexit

done by 31 October” with a “new spirit

of can-do”.

“We are once again going to believe

in ourselves and what we can achieve,

and like some slumbering giant we are

going to rise and ping off the guy-ropes

of self-doubt and negativity.”

After the new Tory leader addressed

backbenchers at a noisy meeting

of the 1922 Committee later , Rachel

Maclean, a member of the One Nation

Group of MPs, said they had been

“lovebombed”.

“We need it, we do actually need

that energising spirit,” she said. “I am

a proud one-nation Conservative. We

have all written to him and I do believe

that is what he is in his heart and

soul. That is what we are all looking

for. Nobody wants an election which

would be so diffi cult for us as a party.”

Johnson answered crowd-pleasing

questions, according to those in the

room – and some emerged still laugh-

ing at his quips. “He said he was going

to insert high-speed broadband into

every orifi ce of every home,” said one.

One comment from Johnson raised

eyebrows. He asked colleagues, using

the conditional terms: “Wouldn’t it

be great if we came out on the 31st

of October?” One MP said “that’s a

total climbdown”. But Steve Baker,

the avowed Eurosceptic who backed

Johnson, said there was no question

over the date and that MPs had cheered

in the room when Johnson called for

their backing for leaving on 31 October.

“We are not picking over the entrails

of the emphasis on each syllable,” he

said. “We are leaving on the 31st. I’m

supremely confi dent because Boris

Johnson wants to be a great British

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