Boris Eyes The Crown

From the Guardian:

"As immaculately dressed waiters served up roast lamb in the hotel's chandeliered ballroom, one of the prime movers in London politics gave vent to months of frustration. 'Boris, you've got to pull your finger out,' the Evening Standard editor, Veronica Wadley, told the Tory candidate for London mayor.

An Eton scholar who does not take kindly to being rebuked, Johnson mumbled incoherently as other guests took the opportunity to air their own concerns about his lacklustre campaign. But the blunt assessment hit home. By the turn of the year, his campaign had sharpened up and now Johnson could be close to the biggest political breakthrough by the Conservatives since John Major's surprise general election victory in 1992.

'Boris looked very sheepish as Veronica told him he had to pull his finger out,' one of the guests said. 'A lightbulb came on - by January he was really energised and now he may be on the verge of an extraordinary upset.'"

Now read more of Nicholas Watt's and Sam Jones's very good piece today.

Comments

[Johnny Rattlesnake]

I apparently live in 'one of the most depressed towns in southern England, a place that is arguably too full of drugs, obesity, underachievement and Labour MPs'

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