I would have put money on myself to win 2024 election, Boris Johnson says

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said helium could person led the Conservatives to a historical triumph astatine the 2024 General Election if helium was inactive successful charge.

In a prime of words that unintentionally recalled the betting ungraded that shook the Tory run this year, helium told Sky News: ‘I would person enactment wealth connected myself.’

A triumph for the Conservatives connected July 4 would person apt led the enactment to a 19-year agelong successful power, longer than a azygous enactment has achieved for 200 years.

But ultimately, the predetermination was a catastrophe for the Tories, and they were reduced to having less MPs successful parliament than astatine immoderate different clip successful its history.

Johnson accused the enactment enactment of making a ‘goof’ successful the lead-up to the vote, adding: ‘Do I deliberation we would person won successful 2024 if I’d stayed on? Yes, I do.

‘Because Starmer wasn’t mounting the satellite connected fire, we were a tiny spot down successful the polls, Reform was nowhere, and I won the mayoralty successful London erstwhile we were 15 points down nationally.’

Since stepping down arsenic PM successful 2022 pursuing respective scandals – astir notably Partygate – Johnson has repeatedly refused to regularisation retired a instrumentality to frontline politics.

He resigned arsenic an MP successful June past twelvemonth aft an probe into Partygate recommended helium should beryllium suspended for misleading the House of Commons implicit gatherings held successful Downing Street implicit lockdown.

Since then, helium has been engaged penning his 730-page memoir titled Unleashed, which volition beryllium released successful shops aboriginal this week.

In an quality connected LBC to beforehand the publication this morning, helium criticised Keir Starmer for taking freebies from his mates – contempt having donors wage for his wedding and accommodation for his family.

Sir Keir travel nether tremendous unit implicit donations of clothes, glasses and tickets helium has received since becoming Labour leader, with concerns raised implicit the Downing Street walk fixed to apical donor Lord Waheed Alli aft the election.

The furore culminated successful the announcement past week that helium has paid backmost much than £6,000 successful gifts and hospitality since taking implicit arsenic PM successful July.

And successful an interrogation connected LBC this morning, his predecessor successful the bureau took the accidental to hammer him, saying: ‘That looks greedy, right? But if you past springiness the feline a walk to Number 10, that looks corrupt.

‘And truthful I conscionable don’t get it. I don’t cognize wherefore he’s inactive wearing those spectacles. Well, isolated from the information helium can’t see. He can’t spot what a messiness he’s making of things.’

Johnson received a £23,853 donation from his friends Lord Anthony and Lady Carole Bamford successful July 2022 for the outgo of hiring items including a marquee and crystal pick van for his wedding to his woman Carrie.

The Bamfords besides gave Johnson’s household usage of accommodation worthy tens of thousands of pounds connected aggregate occasions successful 2022 and 2023.

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