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And it was thanks to If.… that he landed the role of Alex DeLarge in the vicious, playful A Clockwork Orange, prancing about Thamesmead in bovver boots and a bowler hat.

Johnson, who is also a Churchill biographer, said he would do everything in his power to protect the statue of Churchill but called the counterprotesters “far-right thugs and bovver boys.”

A “bovver boy” in British slang is a hooligan, often a skinhead, who creates bother.

Now, Dacre-trained in attack dog menace, he pulls on his bovver boots and joins them.

One woman, wearing red lipstick and bovver boots, says she is overwhelmed.