Johnson refuses to rule out Parliament bid while serving as London Mayor

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London Mayor Boris Johnson has ruled out the speculations that his aim to win a seat in Parliament in general election 2015 will not affect his current function of running Britain’s capital city in the final year of his term.

The recent development will probably fuel speculation that Mr Johnson is eying the Tory leadership  or at least a ministerial post – before his term in City Hall ends in May 2016, following his intentions to run for the Tory safe seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip during next year’s general election.

Mr Johnson has long been listed as a likely replacement for Conservative leader David Cameron after a survey suggested him as more popular than the current Prime Minister.

When Mr Johnson was pressed during Mayor’s Question Time on Wednesday by a Labour assembly member Tom Copley over ruling out doing two jobs at once, the London mayor has responded: “All I can tell you, is there is no vacancy for either of the posts that you’ve described.”

Mr Copley has asked: “Being an MP is one thing but I think that taking up a cabinet post or running for the leadership of the Conservative party would be quite different and both would require an immense amount of time an energy and would be incompatible with remaining Mayor of London. Will you today make a firm commitment that you will not take up a government post nor run for the leadership of the Conservative party whilst you are Mayor of London?”

While branding the questions on his ambitions from Labour Assembly Members as “outrageous hypotheses and conjectures”, Mr Johnson has dismissed the “mad speculations” over possibilities that have not taken place.

London mayor has told: “My adoption as the prospective Parliamentary candidate will make absolutely no difference to the discharge of my function, if anything you will seen any even greater intensification of the already volcanic levels of activity that you’ve come to expect.”

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