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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aubrey Allegretti

PM’s flight of fancy as he jokes about firing Tory MPs into orbit

Boris Johnson next to a massive globe
Boris Johnson spoke about slipping the ‘surly bonds of Earth’ as he described his flight in a Typhoon jet last week. Photograph: Reuters

Boris Johnson has joked about sending critical Conservative MPs into space and recalled doing a “fantastic loop the loop” in an RAF Typhoon as he reflected on his premiership in a valedictory speech.

While the race to replace him as prime minister narrowed in Westminster, Johnson told attendees at the Farnborough airshow that after “three happy years in the cockpit and after performing some pretty difficult if not astonishing feats”, he was “going to hand over the controls seamlessly to someone else”, but he added: “I don’t know who.”

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