UK’s Johnson reveals love of Asterix as he backs reading drive

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed his childhood love of French cartoon Asterix with its “magic potion and eating whole boars” as he backed football star Marcus Rashford’s literacy campaign. “I read everything but I loved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tintin and especially Asterix — the magic potion and eating whole boars and the tiny Romanosceptic village holding out against the Empire.