Boris Johnson quit journalism for a career in politics because he felt guilty for abusing people without walking in their shoes, he claimed today.
The Prime Minister, whose past writings have stirred accusations of racism and homophobia, made the comment while speaking to children at a school in London about how he got into politics.
Having been the editor of the influential conservative magazine The Spectator, and covered the European Union as the Telegraph s Brussels correspondent in the 1990s and early noughties, Mr Johnson told a classroom of a moment in his life when a light bulb went off in my mind .
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