"All of which leads me to ask about Johnson’s occasionally fickle relationship with the truth. How important is the truth to him?"
“Um. It is hugely,” he says quietly. “It is everything isn’t it? And I think the truth will set you free, is my view of the world. So, as far as you possibly can, you’ve got to discover it and explain it.”
"He goes on to give an example of Churchill deliberately overstating the size of the British fleet to Parliament during the Second World War, “but basically, I think the reason he was great is he tried to be intellectually honest with himself.”"