London Mayor: an Early Interview with Boris

Never underestimate Boris Johnson! This half-hour interview was conducted in mid-September 2007, some weeks before Boris was selected as the Conservative Mayoral candidate. It takes him a couple of minutes to get going, but it is well worth sticking with this. Listen not so much to the words in isolation, but also to the motivation behind them. Contrast this with Ken Livingstone, and the distinction is clear and obvious.

If ever there was any doubt that Boris is the right person to be London's Mayor from May 2008, this should help to dispel at least a large chunk of the concerns I have read elsewhere. He is a lot better than many of us might have thought, and London deserves far better than it has had during the last eight years, despite some good things happening in that time (though even those were probably done for the wrong reasons).