Follow live: Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson face off in the first televised debate of the UK election campaign
Boris Johnson is Britain's celebrity politician. Can he avoid a slip-up in primetime?to contest, and it’s taking place on his terms.
That could see Johnson go the way of his predecessor Theresa May, who also relished a sizeable polling lead in 2017 before seeing it wiped away by Jeremy Corbyn — the man Johnson will share a stage with in a couple of hours. First elected an MP in 2001, Johnson’s uniquely bumbling persona, ease in front of cameras and command of the media landscape made him a rising star of the Conservative Party. Two terms as London’s mayor, between 2008 and 2016, elevated his profile internationally and cemented his position alongside Tony Blair as one of Britain’s only celebrity politicians.It was the 2016 Brexit referendum, however, that propelled him to the front of the UK’s political scene.
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