Boris Johnson's highly-anticipated Daily Mail column has lastly dropped, hours after the web site confirmed he was its new star author. 

The former PM, who has had a turbulent week stuffed with twists, turns and scandal, is reportedly being paid £1million for the brand new high-profile author. 

Despite hopes amongst political journalists he may spill the beans on his fall out with Rishi Sunak, or what he plans to do subsequent in politics, he is as an alternative chosen to give attention to a distinct subject completely: his drawback shedding pounds. 

He writes in regards to the hope supplied to middle-aged males - who cannot resist a late-night journey to the fridge to snack on cheese and chorizo - by a brand new marvel drug being utilized by a few of his political colleagues to drop kilos with out a lot effort. 

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He says the drug might assist him "Say goodbye to that unconquerable mid-morning lust for a bacon sandwich. No longer will you stand over the children waiting for them to push aside their bowls of pasta — and then ruthlessly scoff whatever they have left."

Mr Johnson says he tried the drug, injected into his abdomen, for weeks, steadily shedding "four or five pounds a week". 

However it quickly "started to go wrong", the column explained.

"I don’t know why, exactly. Maybe it was something to do with constantly flying around the world, and changing time zones, but I started to dread the injections because they were making me feel ill.

"One minute I'd be advantageous, and the subsequent minute I'd be speaking to Ralph on the massive white cellphone, and I'm afraid that I made a decision that I couldn’t go on.

"For now I am back to exercise and willpower, but I look at my colleagues — leaner but not hungrier — and I hope that if science can do it for them, maybe one day it can help me, and everyone else."

The drug, semaglutide, was accredited to be used by NHS England in March after rising reputation within the USA. 

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) concluded the drug is protected, efficient and inexpensive, and will result in customers to cut back their weight by over 10 % if mixed with a very good food plan and train. 

Mr Johnson jokes the quickly rising jawlines amongst his Cabinet colleagues started to fret him when he realised it might solely imply certainly one of two issues. 

"If an otherwise healthy middle-aged man displays sudden weight loss, I reasoned, there are only two possible explanations. Either he has fallen hopelessly in love, or else he is about to mount a Tory leadership bid."

Mr Johnson defends the brand new drug towards those that say chubby folks should not seek for medical options over exercising extra. 

He argues: "I see nothing morally wrong in using these drugs to help you lose weight, any more than it is wrong to use an electrically assisted bicycle to get up the hill".

"Even for us fatties, it turns out, there is such a thing as satiety — and science has found it."

Mr Johnson famously began a weight reduction drive after rising from hospital following his battle with Covid. 

He advised the general public: "The reason I had such a nasty experience with the disease is that although I was superficially in the pink of health when I caught it I had a very common underlying condition". 

"My friends I was too fat. And I've since lost 26 pounds,"

"I am going to continue that diet because you've got to search for the hero inside yourself, in the hope that individual is considerably slimmer."