The Tories’s not-so-secret weapon has finally been deployed. Boris Johnson hit the campaign trail with David Cameron today, solving a jigsaw puzzle, painting with some children (above) and exuding a bonhomie missing from the campaign so far. But the dangers of letting Boris loose were also seen in an interview on Sky News. When asked, multiple times, by Kay Burley if he would like to succeed Cameron as Tory leader, Boris edged a scintilla closer to saying ‘yes’. At first, the Mayor of London deflected:
‘By 2020, I hope I will still be alive and still in Parliament but kaleidoscope of politics will have changed and rotated. There will be all sorts of new possibilities
When pushed again by Burley, he said ‘it is not something that is on my agenda now’ before conceding:
‘In the dim and distant future, it would be a wonderful thing to be thought to be in a position to be considered for such an honour’
He hurriedly said how unlikely it was he would become party leader, that the proposition was not on his radar and how some ‘young thruster’ would most likely overtake him.
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