Opinion: Boris Johnson could learn a lot from Pitt the Younger when it comes to no-deal Brexit

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Opinion: Boris Johnson could learn a lot from Pitt the Younger when it comes to no-deal Brexit
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Today's constitutional crisis has uncanny echoes of the struggle for power of William Pitt in the 18th century

Boris Johnson is a Hanoverian, and, thus distantly related to the Queen, David Cameron and Danny Dyer , among others. Boris's paternal grandmother, Yvonne Eileen Williams, known in the family as"Granny Butter" and whose family name was de Pfeffel, was a descendant of Prince Paul Von Wurttemberg. The German prince was, in turn, a direct descendant of George II.

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