FOCUS The Brussels Years: The making of Brexit Boris

LONDON: Charming, scruffy and with his perennial mop of blond hair, top Brexit campaigner and former London mayor Boris Johnson used to be a Brussels correspondent, penning stories that helped foment euroskepticism at home.

Johnson, 51, worked in the city between 1989 and 1994 -- a time not unlike the present when Britain's difficult relationship with Brussels was at breaking point and the Conservatives were deeply split on Europe.