Boris Admits: 'I'd Love A Crack At PM'

Boris Johnson has admitted that he would like to be prime minister but insisted "it's not going to happen".

The Mayor of London, considered a future rival to David Cameron, said he would love to "have a crack" at the job.

But he likened the idea to the prospect of him being a renowned painter or composer - or the lead singer of a top band.

He was asked whether he harboured ambitions for the top job in British politics in a forthcoming documentary.

Michael Cockerell, who made the programme for BBC2, told the Radio Times Mr Johnson said: "I would like to be the lead singer of an international rock group. That was my aim, or a good guitarist.

"I would love to have been a world-famous painter or a composer. There are many things that I would like to have been able to do."

When the documentary-maker pressed him again, he replied: "I think it's a very tough job being prime minister.

"Obviously, if the ball came loose from the back of a scrum - which it won't - it would be a great, great thing to have a crack at. But it's not going to happen."

Boris Johnson with David Cameron at the Olympics

Mr Johnson, 48, is seen by some Tories as the party's best hope for the future if Mr Cameron loses the next general election in 2015.

He enjoys huge popular support and veteran MP Sir Peter Tapsell, 83, is said to have offered to vacate his seat for him.

But the flamboyant politician has pledged to stay on as Mayor of London until 2016 and last week urged Tories to "put a sock in it and back the Prime Minister".

Mr Johnson and Mr Cameron, who is two years younger, both studied together at Eton and then Oxford University.

According to Cockerell, Mr Johnson painted a self-portrait when he was 12 which saw him resemble a Grecian demi-God.

His sister Rachel confirms that he always set his sights high as a child. "As Boris was growing up whenever anyone asked him what he wanted to be, he would answer: 'World King'," she said.

She added that he and Mr Cameron are "rather sweet" together because the Prime Minister "even though he's taller looks at Boris as if he's still head boy at Eton.

"Remember, Cameron was two years younger - the young pup."

Boris has pledged to stay as London Mayor until 2016

Asked whether Mr Johnson was now resentful as Mr Cameron had become Prime Minister, she said: "No, it gives Boris a sense of continuing superiority because he was Captain of the School."

Mr Johnson said that he vaguely remembered Mr Cameron at Eton, where the younger pupil was known as "Cameron minor" because his older brother was also at the exclusive school.

"I do remember Dave," he said. "Someone said to me once, 'That's Cameron mi' and there was this tiny chap, I dimly remember."

He also revealed his embarrassment about being a member of the notorious Bullingdon Club, a dining group for ex-public schoolboys at Oxford, whose members also included Mr Cameron.

"This is a truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and twittishness," he said.

"But at the time you felt it was wonderful to be going round swanking it up. Or was it? Actually I remember the dinners being incredibly drunken."

Asked about the club's reputation for smashing up restaurants, he admitted: "Yes. And the abiding memory is of deep, deep self-loathing."

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