Fresh from banging his head on the door of Downing Street, John Kerry has just been speaking at a press conference alongside Boris. But it wasn’t the US Secretary of State coming to blows during the heated Q and A session at the Foreign Office. John Kerry might be heading home tomorrow, but most of the eyes – and the barbs being flung from the audience of gathered journalists – were aimed squarely at one man: Boris.
American journalists in London for Kerry’s visit appeared to see it as their sole opportunity to hammer the Foreign Secretary – and they certainly tried their best to make the most of it. There was much squirming – most of it from John Kerry – as the inevitable questions about Boris’ Lady Macbeth comparison of Hillary Clinton and his ‘part-Kenyan’ comment about Barack Obama surfaced. There was enough time for Boris to re-assure those gathered that he wanted to re-shape Britain’s profile as an even greater global nation.
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