He Became A Member Of Parliament After Being A Journalist

Before beginning his career as a writer with The Times in 1987, Boris Johnson worked for a short time as a management consultant. He lost his job because he misquoted a source. After being fired from The Times, Johnson was able to secure journalism positions at The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator. His click-bait headlines were inaccurate and offensive, and his ethical blunders hampered his progress, but his personality helped him gain a following of right-leaning readers.

He had to apologize to Liverpool, a whole city in the United Kingdom, in 2004 for his callous and ignorant remarks in an editorial. After the catastrophic soccer stadium tragedy that claimed over 100 lives at the end of the 1980s, he charged the residents of the city with exploiting their "victim status."

He was elected to the House of Representatives in 2001 and held that seat until 2008. In the 2015 election, Johnson won the seat of MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip. The next year, he decided not to run for mayor again. In the successful Vote Leave campaign for Brexit during the 2016 EU membership referendum, he rose to prominence. After the referendum, Theresa May named him foreign secretary; two years later, he resigned in protest at May's stance on Brexit and the Chequers Agreement.