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Boris was very clever at creating an image and downplaying expectations so that colleagues thought he was way off-beam, and didn't know what he was doing," The Times journalist Michael Binyon told Mr Johnson's biographer Sonia Purnell. More time was bought as a result of the decision by the Met Police to investigate the events in Downing Street and Whitehall - forcing a delay to the publication of the Gray report. Other candidates may have held cabinet positions - like Home Secretary Theresa May, or the former defence Secretary Liam Fox - but the fight to be David Cameron's successor was seen as his to lose.

Image: The fallout from allegations of drunken groping against Chris Pincher set in train Mr Johnson's downfallDuring his first administration, Johnson was embroiled in several personal scandals. After moving to a new house in Islington, he built a shed on his balcony without obtaining planning permission; after neighbours complained, he dismantled it. [222] The press also accused him of having an affair with Helen Macintyre and of fathering her child, allegations that he did not deny. [223] [224] [225] [226] Controversy arose when Johnson was accused of warning the MP Damian Green that police were planning to arrest him; Johnson denied the claims and did not face criminal charges under the Criminal Justice Act. [227] He was accused of cronyism, [228] in particular for appointing Veronica Wadley, a former Evening Standard editor who had supported him, as the chair of London's Arts Council when she was widely regarded as not being the best candidate for the position. [229] [230] [231] He was implicated in the parliamentary expenses scandal, being accused of excessive expenses claims for taxis. His deputy mayor Ian Clement was found to have misused a City Hall credit card, resulting in his resignation. [232] The rebellion he faced was larger than that suffered by Theresa May in December 2018, but he survived. His cabinet stood by him and Mr Johnson made clear he was not inclined to want to bow to pressure. But when reports began to emerge of pandemic parties taking place in Downing Street and in Whitehall, all at times when the rest of the country were unable to do anything of the sort, he and his team repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. Johnson's visit to Turkey from 25to 27September 2016 was somewhat tense because he had won Douglas Murray's offensive poetry competition about the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, four months earlier. [342] When questioned by a journalist whether he would apologise for the poem, Johnson dismissed the matter as "trivia". [343] Johnson pledged to help Turkey join the EU and expressed support for Erdogan's government. [344] Despite his designs on higher office, Mr Johnson's early time in the Commons left him frustrated and disillusioned.

On 19 January, Bury South MP Christian Wakeford defected from the Conservative Party to the Labour Party. [568] At the end of Prime Minister's Questions, Conservative former minister David Davis called for Johnson to resign, quoting Leo Amery calling on Neville Chamberlain to resign during the Norway Debate in 1940, and saying: "You have sat there too long for all the good you have done. In the name of God, go." [569] [570] [571] Amery's call was itself a reference to Cromwell's dismissal of the Rump parliament. Nonetheless, the volunteer, who does not wish to be named, has little patience for the man who arrives in a tight white shirt on his way to work. “It’s not just that you’re going to have to take it off. Also, you might bleed. You idiot.” Readers of the eurosceptic Telegraph lapped it up at a time when the governments of Margaret Thatcher and Sir John Major were grappling with the thorny issue of Europe. Secret recordings obtained by BuzzFeed News in June 2018 revealed Johnson's dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Theresa May's negotiating style, accusing her of being too collaborative with the European Union in Brexit negotiations. Comparing May's approach to that of the US president Donald Trump – who at the time was engaged in a combative trade war with the EU because it raised tariffs on metal – Johnson said: "Imagine Trump doing Brexit. He'd go in bloody hard... There'd be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos. Everyone would think he'd gone mad. But actually you might get somewhere. It's a very, very good thought." He also called Philip Hammond and the Treasury "the heart of Remain" and accused individuals of scaremongering over a Brexit "meltdown", saying "No panic. Pro bono publico, no bloody panic. It's going to be all right in the end." [393] In April 2021, Cummings made allegations that Johnson had arranged for donors to "secretly pay" for renovations on the private residence at 11 Downing Street. [533] Cummings wrote on his blog that the plans were "unethical, foolish, possibly illegal" and "almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended." [534] [535]And yet, according to tradition, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus later returned to serve a second term. That evening Mrs May eventually emerged to declare the Cabinet had agreed to her proposals, but the position did not hold.

Following the incident, Flynn launched legal action arguing that the police actions interfered with her right to express her legitimate political opinions. 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.He left City Hall with his reputation intact - a YouGov poll at the end of his second term found more than half of voters thought Mr Johnson had done a good job. In 2019, Johnson – who has been MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015 – won the seat with a majority of 7,210 and a 52.6% share of the vote. Labour were in second with 18,141 votes followed by the Lib Dems with just 3,026.