Boris Johnson Selected As Candidate For MP

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has been selected to represent the Conservatives at the next election in Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

He won outright in the first ballot of the local Conservative association, where three other candidates also ran to represent the seat.

Speaking on the steps of the building where the meeting was held, Mr Johnson addressed the media.

He said: "Uxbridge and South Ruislip Conservative Association have done me the honour of picking me to fight the election and in 236 days, as their candidate, that is what I'm going to do.

"I'm obviously thrilled. It will be a tough fight and a long fight. I've no doubt whatever that we are going to be able to return David Cameron and the Conservatives with an absolute majority in 2015.

"That's what I'm going to be working for. Not just here in Uxbridge but in the rest of London as well."

Asked by Sky's Chief Political Correspondent Jon Craig if he intended to use it as a step towards running for prime minister, he said: "No, this is the first stage in a campaign to retain the seat of Uxbridge and South Ruislip for the Conservatives which is what I propose to do.

Dozens of members of the media were awaiting the result in Uxbridge

"And to get across the message about what the Conservatives have achieved, not just in London but across the country as whole in turning the economy round as we have in the last few years and urging people not to throw it away by allowing Ed Miliband and the Labour Party to get in."

Asked whether he intended to do the job of Mayor of London and MP at the same time, he said: "It's been done before and I see no reason why it cannot be done again.

"I would also point out that it's possible to be both an MP and have a very big job such as foreign secretary or prime minister."

He said it was too early to say whether he would be moving to Uxbridge or south Ruislip, but he said, as Mayor of London, he was familiar with the area.

"What I've got to do is have a lot of talks with people here in Uxbridge and South Ruislip. Get to know people and get to know the association - obviously I know it quite well already because I've spent six years representing the area.

"There's a lot of digging in to be done."

Before the ballot, Mr Johnson and his three rivals made a behind-closed doors pitch to members of the association in a school hall.

Sadiq Khan said Mr Johnson will be 'a lame duck mayor'

Mr Johnson previously served as an MP for Henley for seven years before quitting Westminster to take up the City Hall reins in 2008.

He will defend a majority of 11,216 in the constituency in northwest London which was previously held by former deputy chief whip Sir John Randall, who is stepping down.

Shadow minister for London Sadiq Khan said: "The fact that Boris Johnson is so openly campaigning to replace David Cameron shows just how weak the Prime Minister has become.

"Rather than tackling the rising cost of living the Tories are turning in on themselves, jockeying for position in a future leadership contest.

"When Boris Johnson should be fixing London's desperate housing crisis, he will instead be spending the next two years campaigning to be an MP and Tory leader.

"He will be a lame duck mayor who has put his personal ambitions above the needs of the hard-working Londoners he was elected to serve until 2016."

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