The Boris Johnson campaign has today responded to accusations that Johnson has been avoiding scrutiny by sending their candidate on a mini-media blitz.
In the past 24 hours, Johnson has given interviews to the BBC, LBC and Talk Radio. There’s even a promise of more media interaction to come. In all of the interviews, the former mayor of London refused to answer questions on his private life – on the issue of why police were called on Friday night to the apartment he shares with his partner Carrie Symonds. He did, however, send social media into a frenzy when he was asked how he liked to relax and replied that it involved making model buses out of old wine crates.
The policy message from today’s interviews and campaign appearances was on Brexit – and what the dividing line is between Johnson and his rival Jeremy Hunt. Johnson has given various answers about whether as prime minister he would take the UK out of the EU by the end of October – deal or no deal.
At the One Nation hustings, he told me that a failure to do so would mean the Tories ‘faced extinction’.
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