Boris Johnson hints he’d quite like to be in Cabinet in May

The Mayor of London who is standing as an MP in Uxbridge for the Conservative party is being typically cryptic about his ambitions if he and his party get in after May 7.

Mr Johnson, who kept the media guessing for months and months about whether he would run for parliament, refused to rule out taking on a position in Cabinet in the next government, despite the fact he would still have an year left as Mayor.

Mr Johnson stressed that his current mayoral position was like running a big budget government department already, but was careful not to rule out another Cabinet role that would not involve running a department.

“I don’t know what the rules say, in fact I don’t think there are any rules, but the job of mayor of London is effectively like running a big department of state.

“There’s a £16bn budget or whatever, there’s lots of executive stuff. What you can do is be an MP, just as you can be an MP and run a big department but I think to do another big budget-wielding department would be pretty tricky.”