U.K. Tory Press Flashes Warning Sign at Under-Pressure Johnson

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Boris Johnson announces Covid-19 restrictions including working from home and vaccine passports, on Dec. 8.

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Boris Johnson is used to critical newspaper front pages, but mainly from Conservative-skeptic titles. Thursday morning was different.

“Beginning of the end for Boris?” was a front-page headline in the Daily Telegraph, the Tory-supporting paper for which Johnson worked as Brussels correspondent and later political columnist.