The answer is no.

Right wing, Romney-loving commentators like Tim Montgomerie on the conservativehome website, along with many of the UKIP impostors and home county conservatives, who add their comments to it, cannot stand Cameron. For New Statesman readers who think that Cameron is beyond the pale on conservativehome he is regarded as left-wing, liberal or a socialist. And that is nothing comapred to what they say about Kenneth Clarke.

So Boris is the their latest hope to unseat Cameron or if not undermine him. It used to be David Davis until he suddenly resigned in a pique. Not the type to have his finger on the nuclear button.

And neither is Boris.

To his credit Cameron lets this kind of intrigue just go over his head, unlike Brown who would be pacing the corridors at 4am or throwing things at people. So the Blair/Brown comparison is a non-starter.

I like Boris from a distance; he entertains. But he will go no further, unless Cameron has a disastrous 2015 general election result and the Conservative Party applies the knife. But he won't because his opponent as the alternative Prime Minister is Ed Miliband

Despite your remarks that it was Boris who won the mayoralty election and not Ken who lost it the reverse is true. Ken lost it because people got tired of him as people do get tired of less than charismatic politicians. It was Labour's organisation in London which got Ken to the narrow margins with Boris. People are getting tired of Boris's idiocy too. His star is on the wain. He's a proven liar - possibly an essential characteristic for a successful politician - and his use of a pseud eurosceptic stance for political gain has shown him to be a cheap demagogue with a posh Etonian accent. Boris's primary interest is in the bucks that he hauls in whatever way he can; he enjoys being an idiot and milks his comedy status for all it is worth. While the British public wallows in its euroscepticism Boris will lead in the polls but very soon there will be the sounds of the whingeing Brits asking to be allowed to join the euro when at the abolition of the tax havens a plummeting sterling will cause stagflation .

Despite your remarks that it was Boris who won the mayoralty election and not Ken who lost it the reverse is true. Ken lost it because people got tired of him as people do get tired of less than charismatic politicians. It was Labour's organisation in London which got Ken to the narrow margins with Boris. People are getting tired of Boris's idiocy too. His star is on the wain. He's a proven liar - possibly an essential characteristic for a successful politician - and his use of a pseud eurosceptic stance for political gain has shown him to be a cheap demagogue with a posh Etonian accent. Boris's primary interest is in the bucks that he hauls in whatever way he can; he enjoys being an idiot and milks his comedy status for all it is worth. While the British public wallows in its euroscepticism Boris will lead in the polls but very soon there will be the sounds of the whingeing Brits asking to be allowed to join the euro when at the abolition of the tax havens a plummeting sterling will cause stagflation .

So Winston Churchill is in the same grouping as Nelson Mandela? And not Hitler?

I wonder what Mandela would have thought about being lumped in with a man who was so totally determined to reinstate King George of Greece in order to protect British interests that he set out to provoke and then destroy the Greek Resistance, who had the cheek to ask for democracy.

Churchill and the British orchestrated and oversaw a chain of events, including the invasion of Greece by British troops, December clashes of 194 (sparked off by the shooting at an unarmed but 250,000 strong demonstration) which led to the far-right White Terror, civil war and then a serious of right-wing to fascist govenments. (There were also huge demonstrations in Trafalgar Square against Churchill's actions, and many questions in the House.)

And in case anyone thinks that Britain was nobly saving Greece from communism, they should read the relevant F.O correspondence - references to the importance of the monarchy to British interests outweigh those to communism by several hundered to one.

Give me Boris over Churchill any day!

Well, he got rid of the bendy buses, seems rather in tune with Conservative thinking about modern Britain, and is not tainted by association with the awful Clegg. However, he is not an MP.......and I don't see any vacant seats with safe majority arising. Therefore, I conclude it is unlikely that Cameron will be defenestrated.

This looks a lot like the Tony Blair/Gordon Brown syndrome. Oh,what larks. Two old Etonians struggling to be opening-bat in school first eleven.
Just so long as they play the game, old chap. Play the game!

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Boris is a buffoon, we saw that with the phone hacking. What record does Boris want to run on, he holds down two highly paid jobs, sacked from the shadow cabinet and cheated on his wife.

Yes. A country cannot have a leader who cannot pronounce his r's correctly.

Can anyone tell me what he has achieved as London mayor? Seriously??

It could very easily happen if the electorate were to suffer a periodic moment of madness. But they'd soon live to regret it. Johnson is a populist and will use any trick in the book to promote himself, like yesterdays stunt of hanging from a yardarm; SUN readers like that sort of thing, in the same way they lap up those awful headlines; subeditors must have used up all the puns by now. Sir Winston was a posh boy and changed Parties several times and was an opportunist, yet the ordinary working class blokes loved him even when they got pummelled in the Great Strike of '26. Its a strange world. Follow Sir Winstons career and you've got Borises.

I've always maintained Labour and Lib Dems shouldn't underestimate Boris.

For a long time, I think he was considered a buffoon, but his time as Mayor has shown him in a different light for people - two successive terms shows that.

I think beneath the floppy hair and apparent theater which seems to define every appearance, there's a serious politician who can resonate with the public.

He's already opposed policies of the government, such as plans to push working class people out of central London and is known to be quite liberal, so perhaps has the potential to sway floating more left wing voters towards him too.

Sounds just like the start of the Cameron train when he impressed with his articulate candidate speech at the Tory conference and look how that turned out. Thanks for spot-on analysis (also v funny) this week.

So ... you don't know either. Just headline would have sufficed!