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He then added: "Having consulted colleagues, and in view of the circumstances in parliament, I have concluded that person cannot be me." It was swiftly reported that Mr Pincher was accused of groping two men at the Carlton Club, in full view of numerous Tory MPs. When she and a friend left the demonstration and were walking to Oxford Circus she saw two police officers gesturing to her. She did not understand what they were trying to communicate and went over to speak to them. His decision to demand his party vote against the suspension of fellow Brexiteer and former cabinet minister Owen Paterson, who had breached paid lobbying rules, caused outrage - prompting an embarrassing U-turn and apology. It was a decision his allies have since argued was unavoidable, given the growing strength of UKIP under Nigel Farage, who had eurosceptics in the Conservative Party terrified.

Eventually, Mr Johnson found himself unable to avoid an apology for having attended at least one of those events himself.

He was made shadow arts minister in 2004 by Michael Howard, the leader at the time, his first frontbench role. Journalists and his MP supporters gathered in a London hotel reception room, anticipating a speech about how he intended to shape the UK's post-Brexit future. Nobody expected to hear what came next. Before the election, Johnson published Johnson's Life of London, a work of popular history that the historian A. N. Wilson characterised as a "coded plea" for votes. [283] It is not an offence if they “had no reason to believe that there was any person within hearing or sight who was likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress”.

He was one of the army of Tory rebels who twice voted down Mrs May's Brexit proposals in parliament, voting in favour only on the third time of asking in March 2019, once the prime minister had already pledged to stand down if Parliament approved her plan. Just weeks after the country had gone to the polls, parliament finally approved the Withdrawal Agreement. In the election, Johnson received 43 per cent and Livingstone 37 per cent of first-preference votes; when second-preference votes were added, Johnson was victorious with 53 per cent to Livingstone's 47 per cent. [209] [210] Johnson subsequently announced his intention to stand down as MP for Henley. [211] [212] First term: 2008–2012 It took four attempts over several weeks for MPs to agree, but on 30 October Mr Johnson finally got his wish - just three months into his premiership a date was set for the first December election since 1923.Initial reports suggested Mr Johnson's admission to hospital was a "precautionary measure", but the following day it was confirmed had been moved to an intensive care unit. Polls suggested that while Livingstone's approach to transport was preferred, voters in London placed greater trust in Johnson over issues of crime and the economy. [284] During the 2012 Mayoral election, Johnson sought re-election, while Livingstone was selected as the Labour candidate again. Johnson's campaign emphasised the accusation that Livingstone was guilty of tax evasion, for which Livingstone called Johnson a "bare-faced liar". [285] The political scientist Andrew Crines believed that Livingstone's campaign focused on criticising Johnson rather than presenting an alternate and progressive vision of London's future. [286] In 2012, Johnson was re-elected as mayor. [287] Second term: 2012–2016 Johnson at the 2012 Summer Olympics See also: COVID-19 contracts in the United Kingdom and COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom Johnson delivering a press conference on COVID-19, 31 July 2020 When he returned to London five years later, Mr Johnson became a regular Telegraph columnist and began writing for The Spectator. The absence of a clear successor and the warnings about the risks of changing leader in the midst of a cost of living crisis and a war appeared to resonate just enough to win and secure what should have been immunity from challenge for 12 months.

By 2007 Mr Johnson had set his sights on the capital, announcing he would run for the role of London mayor. Johnson's friends were largely from the wealthy upper classes; his best friends being Darius Guppy and Charles Spencer, both of whom later accompanied him at the University of Oxford and remained friends into adulthood. [58] Johnson excelled in English and the Classics, winning prizes in both, [59] and became secretary of the school debating society [60] and editor of the school newspaper, The Eton College Chronicle. [61] In late 1981, he became a member of Pop, [62] a small, self-selecting elite and glamorous group of prefects. Later in Johnson's career it was a point of rivalry with David Cameron, who had failed to enter Pop. After leaving Eton, Johnson went on a gap year to Australia, where he taught English and Latin at Timbertop, an Outward Bound-inspired campus of Geelong Grammar, an independent boarding school. [63] [64] [65] Last Thursday evening it emerged Chris Pincher had resigned as deputy chief whip, writing to the PM saying he had "drunk far too much" the night before. The prime minister may have changed, but the parliamentary numbers had not - Mr Johnson inherited the same political quagmire that had dragged down his predecessor. A constituent out shopping with her daughter said Johnson’s resignation was “the best thing that ever happened”. She added: “I don’t like him for Brexit, it shouldn’t have happened. It has displaced many families.”

But when asked whether he would vote Conservative in the byelection he was hesitant: “Ooh, I’m not too sure yet.”