The Independent

Watch moment appalled ambassador stops Boris Johnson reciting colonial poem in Burma's holiest site

This is the footage which shows the British ambassador to Burma cutting off Boris Johnson's recitation of a colonial-era poem in the country's holiest site, in what has been labelled a “stunning” ...
The Sun

Boris Johnson narrowly avoids a colonial gaffe in Burma after getting ticked off by a British ambassador

The Foreign Office’s chief diplomat was caught whispering to him that it was not a good idea to recite the Rudyard Kipling poem Mandalay BORIS Johnson has been caught on camera getting ticked off by a ...
Politico Europe

Boris Johnson criticized over Myanmar temple gaffe

U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was prevented from reciting an “inappropriate” colonial-era poem by Rudyard Kipling by the British ambassador to Myanmar while on an official visit there in ...
SBS

'Not appropriate,' envoy tells Britain's Boris Johnson over Kipling poem in Myanmar

Britain’s ambassador to Myanmar was forced to interrupt Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson earlier this year as he tried to recite a nostalgic colonial poem by Rudyard Kipling in public during a visit to ...