If anyone had good cause to pay tribute to the late David Barclay, one-half of the reclusive billionaire Barclay brothers who died following a short illness last night,  it was the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Back in the noughties, Johnson was paid £250,000 to write a weekly column in the Barclay owned Telegraph newspaper – a handsome sum even by the standards of a British broadsheet, although Johnson described it at the time as “chicken feed”. On hearing the news of the 86-year-old’s death, the British PM tweeted: “Farewell with respect and admiration to Sir David Barclay who rescued a…

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