DEREK PRINGLE

Icon: Sir Ian Botham almost single-handedly won the 1981 Ashes – when Prime Minister Boris Johnson was just 17 years old.Now the two are working alongside one another

Ian Botham’s greatest ever ‘trade’ was to swap one of his Duncan Fearnley bats for a custom made Fender guitar belonging to Eric Clapton.
The two are good friends but even so it is the kind of great deal Boris Johnson no doubt hopes Botham will pull off in his new role as the government’s trade ambassador to Australia.
He is a bold choice. The Prime Minister was 17 when B...