Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will run for the Conservative Party as an MP in the next general election in 2024, according to a close source who said he is determined to contest the Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat in west London.
It would be the fourth time he would contest that constituency since 2015, the last time in 2019 when he was elected prime minister. Since 2010 that seat has always been held by a Conservative MP, however, the latest polls give Labour as the favorite if the election were held now.
The source confirmed Johnson’s intentions, after the newspaper ‘The Telegraph’ first reported that the former prime minister had contacted the local delegation of the Conservative Party to convey his commitment to represent the ‘Tories’ from that seat.
Johnson already said last month that he was in a «temporary pause», after he was forced to resign as prime minister in the middle of this year due to the scandals that were accumulating, the last one after it was known that he knew the complaints about sexual harassment of Chris Pincher when he appointed him deputy head of voting discipline of the Conservative parliamentary group.
Since he left the 10 Downing Strert in September, Johnson has been seen vacationing in the Caribbean, or giving lucrative conferences, while the ‘Tories’ faced one of their worst crises in recent years, although he did feel in his party the possibility of running again to replace Liz Truss, who left office in October just over a month after taking office.
