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Boris Johnson: The Anti-Trump

Boris Johnson: The Anti-Trump
British PM Boris Johnson shakes hands with President Donald Trump onstage during the annual NATO heads of government summit in Watford, England, on Dec. 4, 2019. Steve Parsons/WPA Pool/Getty Images
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Boris Johnson is sometimes likened to Donald Trump—a British-style populist, albeit one who can recite chunks of Homer’s “Iliad” in the original Greek. In truth, many of his positions are closer to those of President Joe Biden. Tackling climate change and biodiversity loss would be his government’s “number one international priority,” Johnson wrote in a foreword to the British government’s integrated security, defense, development, and foreign policy review released last week.
Rupert Darwall
Rupert Darwall
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Rupert Darwall is a senior fellow of the RealClear Foundation and author of the books “The Age of Global Warming: A History,” “Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex,” and “Going Through the Motions: The Industrial Strategy Green Paper.” Darwall also authored the reports “The Climate Noose: Business, Net Zero, and the IPCC’s Anti-Capitalism,” “Capitalism, Socialism and ESG,” “Climate-Risk Disclosure: A Flimsy Pretext for a Green Power Grab,” “The Anti-Development Bank: The World Bank’s Regressive Energy Policies,” and “The Folly of Climate Leadership.”
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