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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dave Burke

Retiring Tory MP says Boris Johnson will get his old Commons seat 'over my dead body'

Boris Johnson has been banned from making a "chicken run" back to his old safe Tory seat - with the town's outgoing MP saying it would happen "over my dead body".

Shamed ex-PM Mr Johnson, who quit last year after Tories finally turned on him following a string of scandals, was tipped to return to the safe seat of Henley.

But the town's MP John Howell said this won't be happening.

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