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Mr Johnson had been on holiday in the Dominican Republic when his successor announced her resignation, but wasted no time letting it be known he was taking soundings - even telling an ally he was "up for it" and "I'm going to do it". After winning the race to be the Tory candidate to take on Ken Livingstone in 2008, he triumphed in the mayoral contest with 53% of the vote.

More time was bought as a result of the decision by the Met Police to investigate the events in Downing Street and Whitehall - forcing a delay to the publication of the Gray report.He was made shadow arts minister in 2004 by Michael Howard, the leader at the time - his first frontbench role.

Readers of the eurosceptic Telegraph lapped it up at a time when the governments of Margaret Thatcher and Sir John Major were grappling with the thorny issue of Europe. Johnson has been the MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. Photograph: Andy Hall/The Observer Now Flynn has received a letter of apology on behalf of the chief constable of British Transport Police (BTP), which says the instruction to cover her T-shirt and the brief detention to give that direction were unlawful. It apologises for any distress caused and gives an undertaking that “the wearing of the T-shirt alone will not lead to her arrest or any direction to cover it”. As a kid I was extremely spotty, extremely nerdy and horribly swotty. My idea of a really good time was to travel across London on the tube to visit the British Museum. In 2019, Johnson – who has been MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015 – won the seat with a majority of 7,210 and a 52.6% share of the vote. Labour were in second with 18,141 votes followed by the Lib Dems with just 3,026.There were questions over who paid for his holiday to Mustique in early 2020. Questions too over who paid for the expensive refurbishments to his Downing Street flat. Questions over the way in which contracts were awarded at the height of the pandemic, and whether Tory donors and associates were given preferential treatment. In September 2017, he was criticised for reciting lines from Rudyard Kipling's poem Mandalay while visiting a Myanmar temple; the British ambassador, who was with him, suggested it was "not appropriate". [364] [365] [366] In October 2017, he faced criticism for stating the Libyan city of Sirte could become an economic success like Dubai: "all they have to do is clear the dead bodies away". [367] [368] Johnson did not condemn the actions of the Spanish government and police during the outlawed Catalan independence referendum on 1October 2017. [369] Main article: Boris Johnson's tenure as Foreign Secretary Official portrait of Johnson as Foreign Secretary The result was the largest Commons majority since 2001 - the 364 seats won by the Conservatives was the highest since Margaret Thatcher. The rebellion he faced was larger than that suffered by Theresa May in December 2018, but he survived. His cabinet stood by him and Mr Johnson made clear he was not inclined to want to bow to pressure.

But when reports began to emerge of pandemic parties taking place in Downing Street and in Whitehall, all at times when the rest of the country was unable to do anything of the sort, he and his team repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. Party chairman Oliver Dowden resigned in the early hours of the morning as the results came in. In his letter to the prime minister, he said "we cannot carry on with business as usual".A poll of party members published on 13June showed Johnson to be the clear front-runner. [425] He received 114 votes in the first ballot of party MPs, [426] 126 in the next, 143 votes in the third and 157 in the fourth. In the last ballot, on 20June, he reached 160 votes and was named one of the final two candidates, alongside Jeremy Hunt. [427]