Matthew Leeming Death, Obituary – A old roommate of Boris Johnson has passed away. He was the one who once referred to Johnson as “the most talented person of my generation.” On November 29, 2022, the body of Matthew Leeming, age 58, was discovered. Matthew Leeming had been a roommate of the previous Prime Minister when they were both attending university. It has not been discovered what caused his death at this time. According to the Times, Mr. Leeming had “variously” worked as a journalist, writer, adventurer, serial entrepreneur, and street pastor throughout his life. He became fast friends with Mr. Johnson early on in both of their Oxford studies, and the two of them even lived in the same house throughout their time at Oxford.
He published these words in a piece for the Telegraph: “Even before he became President of the Union, it was clear that he was the most talented person of my generation.” Balliol, the college that Mr. Johnson attended, is renowned for its “effortless superiority,” which Mr. Leeming referred to as “that annoying British ability to excel without apparently having put any work into it.” According to what Mr. Leeming said, “that annoying British ability to excel without apparently having put any work into it.” According to Mr. Leeming, Mr. Johnson “embodies this to an extent that he may label preternatural.” He went on to say, “I have never been more honored than I am right now to be able to call this extraordinarily talented man my buddy.”
Throughout his lifetime, Mr. Leeming was involved in a wide variety of enterprises, some of which included a language school, tile manufacturers, businesses in stationery printing, marble exports, and oil, as well as an Afghan tourism company. During the latter endeavor, Mr. Leeming accidentally came into contact with al-Qaeda as he worked to establish his tourism company in the region despite the continuous fighting. Unbeknownst to Mr. Leeming, the two “Moroccan journalists” who were staying in the room next to him while he was in the mountains of Afghanistan were on a suicide mission to kill the anti-Taliban guerrilla commander General Ahmed Shah Massoud.
This was a prelude to the attack on the World Trade Center that would take place just two days later on September 9. Since the time that he and Mr. Johnson shared a home, they had continued to be good friends. In fact, Mr. Johnson’s appointment as editor of The Spectator in 1999, which was a turning point in his professional life, was apparently the consequence of Mr. Leeming’s recommendation. Later on, he expressed his support for Mr. Johnson’s ambition for the prime ministerial position in 2019 by penning a column. He stated that he was “appalled at the abuse people have been flinging at him simply because they disagree with his position on Europe.” He claimed that he had been “appalled at the abuse people have been hurling at him.”