Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson joked that while the United States is not the “oldest democracy” it certainly offers the “oldest presidential candidates” – commending the country for “proper veneration of the elderly” in picking octogenarians “so full of fizz and spunk” to run the White House.
Johnson was addressing a crowd at the Institute Of Politics And Public Service at Georgetown University when an attendee suggested to him that “the United States is touted as being the oldest and greatest democracy in the world.” It was an assertion that Johnson couldn’t only help correct but one that gave way to a string of musings, including how he’d abandoned his own U.S. citizenship because it was “very expensive.”
Johnson: “I used to be American, by the way. It was a very, very expensive decision I made to be born in New York, as I was. I wanted to be close to my mother at the …