Boris Johnson ‘would take on PM job’

By SHERNA NOAH
Published on 19/03/2013 00:50

London mayor Boris Johnson has admitted that he would like to be prime minister but insisted “it’s not going to happen”.

The politician, 48, who has been seen as a possible future rival to David Cameron, said he would want to “have a crack” at the job “if the ball came loose from the back of a scrum”.

He was asked whether he harboured ambitions for the job in a forthcoming BBC2 documentary.

Michael Cockerell, who made the programme, said Mr Johnson answered: “I would like to be the lead singer of an international rock group. That was my aim, or a good guitarist. I would love to have been a world-famous painter or a composer. There are many things that I would like to have been able to do.”