'No one wants a prat like me as PM' says Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson dismissed talk of him becoming the next Prime Minister yesterday as he joked: "How could anybody elect a prat who gets stuck in a zip wire?"

The question was repeatedly asked of the London Mayor during an ITV interview which showed footage of him hanging over a crowd of people at Victoria Park, east London, for several minutes last week after a zip wire he was travelling on became jammed. "There you have got it, how on earth could you elect that guy?" he said.