Boris Johnson | Interview & Lap | Top Gear

When I was a presenter, I have news for you last year, seven people called the BBC to say I was a very poor presenter when my guest tonight presented him. 85 people called and said he was a great presenter. He is the Conservative MP for Henley. He is the editor. from The Spectator and it seems he is 92 times better than me at organizing current news quizzes, ladies and gentlemen, Boris Johnson, how glad are you to see him? Thank you, I have news for you, malar, yes, it is complicated, isn't it very complicated? I mean, complicated. for me at least anyway, but it was tricky, it was trying to remember which part you were supposed to look at at any given time.

I think Angus Deon made the money from him. I think they should bring Angus back. Well, everyone we think we should bring back. Anger should bring back, yes, not bring back hanging, but bring back anger, yes, what I have to find out is that most politicians for forac training are quite incompetent and then have an appearance of competition that, you know, they seem to do. the other way around, yes, well, you can't rule out the possibility that you know beneath the elaborate veneer of a you know, dumb idiot, his kind of dumb idiot, well, what is it, of course, no, no, no, my dear friend What is that about you? driving a tractor through a barn so yeah, it's perfectly true that this was a long time ago um, do you know if you've ever driven a tractor really fast? no um no one has done it right actually this one was pretty fast by my standards The Massie Ferguson tractor had a lot of very complicated

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was the one you used when you wanted to slow down and just went down like blank, I went out the back of the barn and um, through the wall, yeah, yeah, and anyway, everything was fine in the end, they docked my pay, uh, where I was working, but it was perfectly easy replace the wall so you could, where were you, what were you, then? part-time, yes, part-time, work driver and now you write about cars.

I do it well, I do it, but you know, Jeremy, I'm, I sit at your feet in the terms of you know, writing about cars anyway, I'm you. I know East EAS is feasting on the you know, bits of Homer's Rich Banquet, yeah, that's something that's the kind that hits big on Top Gear. Say it's a good thing, it's a good thing, yeah, because I mean, I do it. enjoy it it's a GQ magazine your motoring column is very good it's very I don't know anything about how you know very you know I really don't know I shouldn't say that actually I do know I know more than I can I can only share a small observation that Boris did about the Maserati here, look how much he's gotten into the big, fat, long things, the vast doubt with the wavy bits coming out of the ground, just look at those suckers, you think?

Yo, what do you really know about your stuff there with cars? I have no idea, yeah, no, really, I have no idea how an engine works. People sat me down and told me no, no, the gasoline is going away and you know? No, no, the fainting, no, and then. there the pistons go up and down and somehow you go up a lot, how does that happen? He will know that he has a beard and a Rover. You will know everything there is to know about it. It's a miracle, but I'm an enthusiast. cyclist unlike you, I think you are Lo and you talk on your mobile phone while you do it not well, I do it, I do it, yes I do it.

Now the point where I said no, I wanted to, I wanted to make a point about my willingness to learn and reform because it's perfectly true that I once talked on a cell phone while riding a bike and, in fact, why shouldn't you be able to talk on a cell phone because you can't reach the brakes you can with one? hand oh, I have exactly the same thing are you saying are you saying that people with one arm shouldn't be allowed to ride a bike? Yes, one-armed people shouldn't be allowed to ride bikes because what you mean is that no one should be allowed to ride bikes, they take up too much space on the road and don't pay to be there.

I think the bikes are absolutely wonderful. You wouldn't park in a bike lane. Would you park in one? You wouldn't park in a bike lane. No, but I do. You drive on them quite regularly. You ride a bicycle. Yes, I am bus lanes. I think the bus loan. It's a very good idea for you, yes, because you think that not everyone is into this fantastic thing. I've arrived late. I'll just zoom in. I don't know if you can say that on television. I just did it. Challenging the Top Gear creators to keep that admission, you know, in the final cut.

Well now we won't be a challenge until Sunday night. We won't know if it makes it to the final edition or not. What did I drive? bus loans who here drives on bus loans one or two exactly there are only three of us who drive in bus lanes that are empty for you so what is it like on the road? Are you the type of person who gets their car towed all the time? once, uh, it's been towed from time to time, yeah, it's been too far. I wouldn't, I wouldn't hide it from you, but I have to say that the last time it happened it was in defiance of all statutes.

Whether my car was legally parked, there was absolutely no doubt and I had testimony from two traffic wardens that it was legally parked in a parking bay with a residence permit mhm, but the point I want to make is that once your car Do you know this? Once your car is an inch off the ground, once it's in that horrible hammock and they have it, it's no longer yours, you no longer have rights to that vehicle, because there's nothing you can say to the guy in the tower. I have a theory about that, who would like to hear my theory about that?

Yeah, I think if you jump on the hood while it was hanging, put a wheel on the Tet, there's no health and there's no way in hell that the health and safety law is going to let you swing, they're going to have to take it back down. I'm sure of that now, of course, you're here to find out how good a driver you are. I guess so, I have an idea. about that, I really don't know how good a driver you think you are extremely bad, really, yes, extremely bad, yes, who would like to see Boris come back?

Here we go, well that was a start, my coach already did it. I'm the worst driver you've ever had to point at the Apex, point at the Apex, who yelled at me, someone yelled at me, well, we've already crossed the line, don't feel bad about the off-road excursion, it was uncomfortable, no, it was. good, it was good, very good car, theana, it is a very good car at a very reasonable price. I think you can buy them now for around 25p, that's for sure now, where do you think you're going to come here? Do you think you're going? be with JK and Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsey or will you be more Jonathan Ross Harry Enfield I think I'm towards the, if not the last, I mean I have no idea, no you couldn't be slower than Harry Edfield. well I didn't know, no I have no idea, no he's terrified that someone would come along one day and be slower than him, just 12, 13 seconds slower than JK, isn't that 13 seconds on that track?

It's about 4 years, anyway, a long time. I have your time here. They did it in 1 minute and 56 seconds. Everyone, he's faster than Jonathan Ross, ladies and gentlemen, Boris Johnson.