...open like Boris did is only going to make things more unbalanced. If he is mayor, it's going to make it 10 times worse." "Boris Johnson in the role of mayor would feel like being trapped on the set of The Wizard of Oz minus the soundtrack and the Technicolor....
...do I think of Boris Johnson? My personal opinion is that as a politician he sucks. I was outraged and ashamed that such a person was voted in as London Mayor. As a person who appears on TV from time-to-time, he's good to watch. He's very clever, very posh...
...place. Certainly, he comes from a fiercely competitive family, albeit the kind in which competition is genteelly disguised. Boris Johnson is the best known of the four children - he featured in the BBC's Who Do You Think Your Are? last week - born to conservationist...
...person make. It's just one more brand new and bogus rule to the London statute book. So the problem to be avoided in this Boris Johnson administration is not the scenario that involves Johnson unleashing his BoJo (his shaggy hair flailing about in press conference,...
...something happens to Boris Johnson, people say to me with a merry smile, "You'll have to do a new chapter of your book." As it happens, I've just written a new chapter of my life of Johnson ("Boris - the Rise of Boris Johnson", Pocket Books, £7.99), serialised...
...painters, political commentators and, darting hither and thither, shirt untucked and tie askew, the magazine's then editor, Boris Johnson. The guests, a mix of influential Tories, raffish writers, a few stray aristocrats and several young women whose purpose...
...Blair-Brown rivalry marked Labour's years of prosperity. © Andrew Gimson. The new and updated edition of 'Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson' (Pocket Books) by Andrew Gimson is available from Telegraph Books for £7.99 + £0.99 p&p. To order, call 0870 428 4112...
...Cameron to reprint a bumper-sticker last seen in the late Seventies: "Cheer up, the Tories are coming". Cheering up, gaffes; Boris Johnson. A few weeks ago, prominent Tories were asking themselves which would be worse: Boris losing or Boris winning. Even...
...the end it could be Livingstone's ability to portray himself as the serious, establishment candidate, in contrast to Boris Johnson's "affable incompetence", that may prove crucial. And though it probably goes against his nature, the mayor is doing his best...
...village had a shock of fair hair, too. One day, I shall make a pilgrimage to that village." Given this ancestry, how did Boris Johnson end up as Mayor of London rather than mayor of, say, Istanbul? Kemal's wife, Winifred, Stanley's grandmother, was half...