“He cannot stand not having attention … he is playing with us. He is doing it so we rush to write articles saying: ‘Will he come back?’, ‘Can he come back?’, ‘How will he come back?’ It’s actually quite funny,” said Sonia Purnell , a Johnson biographer.
Although Conservative party rules prevented him from standing in this leadership election , few would rule out his attempting an audacious second crack at being prime minister in the future.
“He won’t want to go out in this way, although he got his standing ovation – albeit not from Theresa May,” added Purnell.
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