Boris Johnson may have ignored UK’s new Prime Minister Theresa May’s warning during the cabinet meeting, where she told him that politics is no game but he learned it the hard way in his first foreign policy outing. His past remarks as a colorful newspaper columnist kept on haunting him, while he was speaking by the side John Kerry, United States’ secretary of state.

In the grand Locarno Suite of the Foreign Office, Mr. Johnson tried his best to talk on global issues like Syria, Yemen, Turkey, and Brexit, however, he was quickly intervened by an array of journalists who questioned whether his temperament suits the new foreign secretary job he was assigned to.

He was first intervened by an American journalist from the Associated Press about his column on Hillary Clinton, who could soon become the next President of the United States. In that telegraph column, Mr. Johnson described Mrs. Clinton as a sadistic nurse in the mental hospital and compared her to Lady Macbeth. Another reporter from New York Times asked John Kerry that how he can trust a man who has a history of wild exaggerations and telling outright lies. Reporters also asked Mr. Johnson whether he would apologize that he described President Barrack Obama as part Kenyan with an ancestral dislike of the British Empire.

Both Mr. Kerry and Mr. Johnson tried to calm the mood, however, it was clearly visible that Mr. Johnson lost his composure. Probably he was thinking about Mrs. May advice while listening to John Kerry’s speech with a grim face.