He's the sort of person who 200 years ago would have died aged 30 leading a cavalry charge into a volcano.

Boris Johnson [is] known as the thinking man's idiot.

Boris Johnson, people always ask me the same question, they say, 'Is Boris a very very clever man pretending to be an idiot?' And I always say, 'No.'

He may seem like a lovable buffoon but you know he wouldn't hesitate to line you all up against a wall and have you shot.