David Cameron backs 'brilliant' Boris!

"I don't always agree with him but I respect the fact that he's absolutely his own man", says David Cameron. I suspect that the admiration temperature only shot up the scale when the polling results came! Boris is in the lead, over Ken Livingstone, that is.

This election will be very interesting. I hope Boris wins, partly because Ken Livingstone has had his day (too much cronyism!) and partly because London requires a mayor who will be larger than life. I bet that it won't be just Londoners talking about the Mayor of London. Boris may appear on Jay Leno's Tonight Show. He may well visit other cities around the world and be remembered and not forgotten.

The one thing Boris has shown is that you can put a bit of fun into politics but also be serious as well. Jeremy Thorpe, the past Liberal leader, was an excellent mimic. He could make Lord Boothby think he was talking to himself! But Thorpe was very scared of being naturally funny. It was a pity, I think. I'm glad Boris can be his own man, seen by the public as such, and not moulded by a creepy coterie of spin merchants and message massagers!