Boris Johnson wows with his new haircut as he gets serious about the job of leading Britain out of the EU

BORIS Johnson is known around the world for his trademark blonde mop but now he’s Foreign Secretary he seems to be smartening up his act.

Proving that Brexit means New Hairdo BoJo has not ditched the ruffled mop effect completely.

But he has gone for a shorter-cropped, bowl-style haircut than he has in the past.

Today he showed off the trim for the world’s photographers at a press conference with the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara, Turkey.

He brushed off as "trivia" an offensive poem he wrote about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, boasting of the strength of Ankara-London ties even after Britain's vote to leave EU.

On his first visit to Turkey as top diplomat, Johnson called for a "jumbo free trade deal" with Ankara that would strengthen economic relations that take in everything from cakes to washing machines.

Boris Johnson, who is of partly Turkish ancestry, described Turkey as "the land of my fathers", emphasising that relatives had worked in senior Turkish foreign ministry positions.

The flamboyant former London mayor, who helped lead the successful campaign for Britain to leave the EU, had in May penned the winning entry in a competition on offensive poetry about Erdogan, published by The Spectator magazine.

But he said he was "delighted" the poem had not come up at all during talks since he arrived in Turkey earlier this week.