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Boris Johnson is on his grand farewell tour, but is it a brief farewell as opposed to

a permanent exit when it comes to his time as Prime Minister?

James, talk us through what Boris Johnson's been doing today, because once again, he

has refused to completely rule out a political comeback.

Yeah, he has this formula that he uses, you know, the public are much more interested

in this issue than the fate of any individual politician.

Well, I think Boris Johnson is also a cany-enough person to know that by not ruling it out,

you keep this interest going in what is he going to do next.

And you're also, there is the fact polling suggests that there are a large number of

Conservative members who kind of wish he was still there.

Now, I don't personally see the circumstances in which he could come back, given the Conservative

Parliamentary Party, I think one of his risks for guessing is everyone took the result

of a second no confidence vote for the 1922 Committee to change the rules for granted.

But what I think there is here is one of the challenges for his successor will be that

because Boris Johnson has this status as a kind of celebrity politician,

everything he says is going to be newsworthy.

And I think as Theresa May and David Cameron could tell you,

Boris Johnson knows very well how to grab hold of a news agenda when he wants to.

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