Johnson echoes Heseltine
Boris Johnson has responded the suggestions that he wants to become Tory leader by echoing the words of Michael Heseltine before he launched a challenge to Margaret Thatcher.
Speaking in an interview with ITV News, he praised the Prime Minister for “doing a wonderful job in tough circumstances”.
Asked if he had any ambition to run for the Tory leadership, he said: “In the immortal phrase of Michael Heseltine ‘I cannot foresee the circumstances’.” But the Mayor added that he had no intention of following in Lord Heseltine's footsteps.