Boris Johnson: attention-seeking rascal seeks career change in silly season

It is entirely appropriate that the mayor should choose an August Wednesday to announce his next move but is he serious?

As a journalist, Boris Johnson knows as well as anyone that August is Fleet Street's silly season, a time when spaceships are sighted over Grimsby and world wars break out in the Balkans. So it is entirely appropriate that the London mayor should choose an August Wednesday to unveil his latest promise and announce his next career move: he wants to be prime minister. At least, he does at the moment.

Don't misunderstand my levity. I long ago realised I had been wrong to underestimate Boris just because he was clever enough to wing his way through most of life's difficulties, cheerfully lazy enough to let others do the heavy lifting and about as trustworthy as the proverbial scorpion. Personally, I like him, I really do.

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