Is Boris Johnson about to make a bid for the top job?

DIPLOMATS and politicians around the world were bidding a not-always fond farewell Tuesday to Boris Johnson after the blond foreign secretary’s bombshell resignation.

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said her government would “miss Boris”. But John McKendrick, Attorney-General of the British overseas territory of Anguilla, called Mr Johnson “the worst foreign secretary we’ve ever had”.

Mr Johnson quit on Monday with an attack on Prime Minister Theresa May, whom he accused of killing the “dream” of Brexit and leading Britain into the status of European Union “colony”.

Not content to send the letter, Mr Johnson had himself photographed, pen in hand, about to sign it. The image adorned the front page of the Daily Telegraph, a newspaper he once worked for.

It was a typically grandiose gesture by the attentionhungry Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.

Many people were surprised when Ms May gave Mr Johnson the job of Britain’s top diplomat in 2016. The garrulous Conservative politician, sometime journalist and former mayor of London has never been known for tact or diplomacy.

Mr Johnson, 54, has earned a reputation for gaffes — and a Teflon-like ability to survive them — during a long political career.

He once used the derogatory term “piccaninnies” to refer to members of the Commonwealth, and likened his party’s internal conflicts “to Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing”.

While foreign secretary he