Andrew Gimson

He's not an old-style 'Euroskeptic' who takes his own tea bag with him when he gets on the channel ferry to go to some place full of ghastly foreigners, he's very good at putting the moderate case and speaking of having a relationship with Europe -- he just doesn't want Europe to be telling us what to do.

Boris is not really a team player, he's a leader, and either his party and the country will accept him as leader, or he'll be in the wilderness.

People would think that because they went to the same school as each other they must be similar kinds of people -- they aren't at all.

Boris is a 'merry England conservative' who feel instinctively disrespectful of the rather solemn-minded people running the show.

Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson. by Andrew Gimson

Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson.

But it didn't really work. by Andrew Gimson

But it didn't really work.

I think he feels intellectually more capable. Here is a man with a knowledge of Latin and Greek who actually reads books for pleasure.