Boris Johnson set to be new Daily Mail columnist

The former British prime minister - and now ex-MP - will return to his journalism roots and write a weekly column for the right-leaning Daily Mail newspaper, Report informs.

Three separate figures told POLITICO London Playbook that a trail for a mystery “erudite new columnist” on the Mail’s Friday front page referred to Johnson.

According to the trailer, the new columnist will start Saturday - and will be “required reading in Westminster.”

Johnson will earn a “very-high six-figure sum” to write the column, according to one figure.