Chaotic Johnson Always Struggled With Rules, and U.K. Voters Love It

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Boris Johnson on his way to Parliament in London on April 28.Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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As a schoolboy, Britain’s prime minister Boris Johnson appeared to be convinced that the normal rules did not apply to him.

“I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else,” wrote Johnson’s Eton College house master, Martin Hammond, in 1982, as quoted in Andrew Gimson’s biography of the premier.