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.

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