This wouldn’t just be the first time a sitting prime minister lost his seat in a general election. “Nazanin is one of the consequences.”Johnson was parachuted into Uxbridge as the Tory candidate in 2015, after leaving office as mayor. “It’s so rare to get Boris here in the constituency that you need David Attenborough to narrate it,” Ali says dryly. “Boris was going to lie down in front of the bulldozers but he ran away to Afghanistan instead,” Ali says. “They were with organisations who need to get on with the new prime minister, I understand that.”He’s also had death threats since standing.

Source: Daily Mirror July 18, 2019 18:19 UTC