Boris Johnson's broken childhood dreams

 
Boris Johnson reads to children as he opens the South Ruislip Library, in London.
PA
3 January 2013

Boris Johnson may be the most influential British man of the year, according to GQ magazine, beating David Cameron, Prince Charles and Sir Bradley Wiggins, but his career has not gone as he hoped.

For a new book, My Original Ambitions, the Mayor has written to author Dominic Shelmerdine: “My original ambition was to become a billionaire proprietor of a multiple retail empire and the Jimmy Goldsmith of my generation. Something went wrong …”

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