Boris Johnson appointed as UK’S new Foreign Secretary

“I think this is actually a bold appointment”, Sir Christopher Meyer, a former British ambassador to the United States, was quoted as saying by Sky News.

“I am not at all anxious about Boris Johnson, but you know his style, his method during the campaign”.

Branding him a liar, a coward or a joker, Europe’s political class greeted Eurosceptic Boris Johnson’s appointment as Britain’s foreign minister with a chorus of dismay on Thursday.

This put him on the opposite side of the argument to President Barack Obama, and Johnson – the New York-born former London mayor – didn’t pull any punches. He was seen as an effective cheerleader for London during his stint as mayor, a tenure that included the successful 2012 Summer Olympics.

And in March, Johnson said he’s “genuinely worried” that Donald Trump will be elected president.

Instead of choosing a team player, May chose a politician who prides himself on being different.

When he was visiting Iraq in 2015, Johnson couldn’t help making fun of former “NBC Nightly News” host Brian Williams when the anchor was under fire for lying about his reporting experiences.

“But you know very well what his style and method are”.

But, he added: “I have to say, the French foreign minister in fact has sent me a charming letter just a couple of hours ago saying how much he looked forward to working together and to deepening Anglo-French cooperation in all sorts of areas”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was compared to “Dobby the House Elf”, and called “a ruthless and manipulative tyrant”.

Part of Johnson’s reasoning was to avoid paying USA taxes.

Papua New Guinea was also added to his “global itinerary of apology” after he referenced the Pacific nation in a rather extreme manner while criticizing Tony Blair’s leadership.

As a newspaper columnist in the early 2000s, Johnson used a derogatory term for black children in a story about Queen Elizabeth II and the Commonwealth. While in Parliament, he offended an entire British city when he complained that people from Liverpool were wallowing in “victim status” after one of their own was taken hostage and slain in Iraq.

It was also Johnson who made some of the Brexit promises that might never become reality.

France and other European Union partners have urged Britain to trigger quickly the process of exiting the bloc so that a two-year period of talks about trade terms and other links can begin.

In another argument for Brexit, Mr Johnson slipped up again by suggesting that European Union leaders had similar plans for the bloc as Hitler.

“We’re always going to be able to work with the British no matter who is occupying the role of foreign sec because of our deep abiding special relationship with the United Kingdom”, he said.

But the morning of the planned announcement, lawmaker Michael Gove, a prominent supporter of Mr. Johnson, publicly recanted his backing and said he would run for prime minister. Le Soir says Mr Johnson has “rebounded spectacularly” to become Foreign Secretary, however, sarcastically suggests that his skills in worldwide diplomacy “remain to be seen”.

Meet the UK’s new Foreign Secretary, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, also known as “BoJo”. Some commentators have felt compelled to defend him against “spiteful attacks”, well before the latest torrent of criticism since he landed his new job. It is not clear if he will try to fit the traditional mold of Britain foreign secretary or retain his capricious approach to diplomatic niceties.

On social media, French writers let rip too, with one tweeting “a clown as the new foreign minister – comedy or Shakespearean tragedy?” while another proposed that Johnson “recruit Mr Bean as an adviser”.