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Rory Stewart reads out 1982 Eton letter about Boris Johnson’s ‘gross failure’
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2:25Now PlayingBoris Johnson's perceived lack of commitment to academia as a schoolboy was highlighted in a letter from Eton College to his father, Stanley, in 1982 and read to the public on Thursday night by his one-time leadership rival Rory Stewart.
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At the Royal Albert Hall event, Stewart joked that the letter from the prime minister's former housemaster constituted his resignation from the Conservative party, which he announced formally on Friday morning, saying he planned to run for London mayor. The audience seemed to delight in the letter, which says the schoolboy had adopted a 'disgracefully cavalier' attitude to his classical studies and 'sometimes seems affronted when criticised'
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