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Cameron: ‘It’s great Boris wants to be PM’
28.04.09
The Tory leader today defended Boris Johnson's refusal to rule out challenging him to be Prime Minister.
David Cameron praised the Mayor of London, who left open the door for a bid in an interview in the Standard. Asked about this on Vanessa Feltz's show on BBC Radio London, Mr Cameron said: “Why shouldn't he be ambitious? I think it's great and it does not worry me at all. I'm a Conservative, I think competition in all things is good including for the very highest jobs.”
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- Angel, London Lewisham
competition is good for business as long as it's not Brown & co
- Out With Brown, London
This is an attempt by Cameron to try and avoid being made PM because he knows that he cant do the job so a fall guy has to be found. Johnson will be the puppet on the string but the puppeteer will escape the blame when the string breaks.
T H Leeds
- Thomas Hayes, Leeds UK
Fond as I am of BJ - he is a minor player. David Camerons is the real deal and will run rings round NewLabour after the next election. It can't come a moment too soon.
- Ian Gilbertson, Newcastle
Keith, WHAT experience and common sense are you referring to precisely?
- Marianne, SW France
Well said, Mike. If they can work in constructive partnership in their current roles they will both be well on their way to being PM at some future point.
- Gill, Rural UK
Ha ha ha Boris as PM is even sillier than Cameron for PM. Doesn't experience and common sense count so much these days ?
- Keith Price, Luton, England
The idea of a buffoon of such dim-witted inanity as Boris Johnson - whose tenure in office as Mayor has seen nothing but cuts, Tory cronyism and indescribably idiocy - as prime minister is so horrifying as to make it almost a duty to vote against the Conservatives. If you think New Labour were bad, the New Tories will be far worse.
- Dave Mudkip, London
Full marks to both for having some balls and acknowledging each other rather than backstabbing as demonstrated by Blair/Brown/Prescot and rest of the joke show called Labour.
- Mike, London England
