Introductory section of opinion piece by Boris Johnson in today' Daily Telegraph newspaper, which points to the gap between him and Trump. Johnson knows what politics is about, knows what liberal democracy is, knows Putin is an opponent, and so on.
Note also he writes his own columns and that he penned this column while running to lead the Conservative Party. Nothing original in it. But hopefully it demonstrates he is a mainstream politician, not a charlatan.
"It is a matter of economic fact that, when Vladimir Putin says that liberalism is obsolete, he is talking the most tremendous tripe. Liberalism is alive. It is well. It is delivering prosperity on a scale unimaginable to previous generations.
That is because a society that is free and inclusive and open will – on the whole – be the best place to start a business. It will be the safest place to invest. It will be the best place to start a family. It will be the best place to live. And there could be no better example of the triumph of liberal values, of course, than Britain today."
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