{"id":30313,"date":"2013-03-19T01:11:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T00:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/mayor-johnson-pm-001128300.html"},"modified":"2013-03-19T01:11:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T00:11:28","slug":"mayor-johnson-would-like-to-be-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/mayor-johnson-would-like-to-be-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Johnson ‘would like to be PM’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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London Mayor Boris Johnson has admitted that he would like to be prime minister – but he insisted “it’s not going to happen”.<\/p>\n

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”.<\/p>\n

He was asked whether he harboured ambitions for the top job in British politics in a forthcoming BBC Two documentary.<\/p>\n

Michael Cockerell, who made the programme, told the Radio Times that Mr Johnson answered: “I would like to be the lead singer of an international rock group. That was my aim, or a good guitarist.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

When the documentary-maker pressed him again, he replied: “I think it’s a very tough job being prime minister.<\/p>\n

“Obviously, if the ball came loose from the back of a scrum – which it won’t – it would be a great, great thing to have a crack at. But it’s not going to happen.”<\/p>\n

Mr Johnson’s sister Rachel said the mayor, who at the age of 12 painted a self-portrait resembling a Grecian demi-god according to the documentary-maker, set his sights high when he was a child.<\/p>\n

“As Boris was growing up whenever anyone asked him what he wanted to be, he would answer – ‘World King’,” she said.<\/p>\n

She said of her brother’s current relationship with the Prime Minister, with whom he went to school at Eton: “When they’re together it’s rather sweet, because David Cameron – even though he’s taller – looks at Boris as if he’s still head boy at Eton. Remember, Cameron was two years younger – the young pup.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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