It looks like the party’s almost over for our Partygate Prime Minister.
Wearing a Tory blue party hat while brandishing helium balloons and a bottle of Prosecco, it can only mean one thing – he must be hosting a work event. Well, his leaving do to be exact.
After a scandal-ridden two-and-a-half years in office, the Prime Minister is finally going this Tuesday, to be replaced by either Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak.
And to mark the end, with one fan suggesting he should go on I’m a Celeb, the Mirror hit the streets of London with lookalike Drew Galdron, aka FauxBojo.
The likeness is so uncanny, everyone walking past does a double take.
Drew, 39, is constantly asked for selfies and a group of teens on (Boris) bikes go past all muttering: “No way, that’s Boris!”
And when our reporter goes into the Partygate Tesco near Westminster to buy “Boris” a bottle of prosecco, although not hidden in a suitcase this time, a mob quickly surrounds him for pictures.
But not everybody is happy to see him.
Electrician Andy Packer, 46, from Bristol, hits out at Boris’s lies. He says: “At the start he was very good with the way he handled Covid but he lost it a bit by lying a lot. I think we need a Labour government.”
Megan Aze, also from Bristol, is not impressed with the Tory premier either.
She rolls her eyes as our Bojo blusters in response to her questioning about how he was forced out of Government.
The trainee solicitor, 20, says: “Your Boris is really realistic. He was really good at avoiding questions and has a very impressive lack of articulation.
“If you’d asked me three years ago would I miss him when he’s gone, I would have said yes. But now I’m not so sure.”
After Bojo photobombs a selfie with makeup artist Daisy McWilliams and her daughter Ava, nine, outside Parliament, she sarcastically says: “I wish him all the very best”.
The 30-year-old, from Glastonbury, Somerset, adds: “I’m really not sorry to see him go. I think his time as Prime Minister couldn’t have gone any worse.”
After leaving Parliament, we take FauxBojo to Piccadilly Circus. There, he drunkenly lounges at Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, wrongly known as Eros, as tourists swarm around him.
Eros is the Greek god of erotic love, so the location is very apt for a PM known for affairs. Boris is stopped by warehouse worker William Aldred, 58, who is visiting the capital from Stoke-on-Trent.
He voted for the Conservatives in the 2019 election but thinks Partygate was where it all went wrong for the PM. He adds: “He should have gone over that.”
Peter Ruiz, 70, who is on holiday in London from Mexico, adds: “People in my country think he’s really bad.”
But Priscilla Bress, 50, a social care worker visiting from Dublin, says she is one of the PM’s greatest fans.
She adds: “I will be sad to see him go. But I would love to see him on a reality show – maybe he could go in the jungle.”
Drew doesn’t only look like Boris, he’s an incredible soundalike too.
Jeff Wilson, a 60-year-old field service manager from North London, grilled him on the cost of living crisis – and gets a song about rising bills in return.
He says: “I’ll be happy to see Boris go... but things are going to be less colourful without him.”
Watch out for our FauxBojo video at mirror.co.uk on Monday. For more information on FauxBojo, see instagram.com/fauxbojo.
