How on earth did he fit it all in? Constituency MP, shadow minister, magazine editor, TV personality and a father of four young children with a working wife.
I�m no slouch, but I feel exhausted just thinking about it.
I suspect there is considerable �help� in the Johnson household. But even so, just one of Boris� several jobs would be enough to keep most ordinary mortals busy and out of mischief.
I am pleased he has kept his job (so far) as editor of The Spectator, the official organ of high Toryism. I may disagree with almost everything I read in it, but it is well written and often entertaining. Its left of centre rival, The New Statesman, is depressingly dull and predictable by comparison.
Boris would have spared himself and his family a lot of embarrassment had he resigned when he should have done, after his comments about Liverpool following the murder of Ken Bigley.
It wasn�t so much what he said, but the humiliation of being ordered to apologise by the Tory leader Michael Howard afterwards.
Boris must have realised then that being told by Mr Howard what to do or say in his role as shadow spokesman was not compatible with being a fearless and independent editor of a political magazine.
But he will be missed from the political front line. His Bunterish blonde mop and exaggerated fogeyism made him one of the few Conservative politicians the public recognised. His appearances on �Have I got News For You� apparently won him admiration, particularly among the young.
Personally, I shall miss him because he set such a good example to the nation by being photographed almost daily in the newspapers � riding his bicycle.
