Footage has emerged of the Tory leader taking a ride in a Typhoon fighter jet last Thursday, while his party squabbles over a successor.
He took a selfie video, while at the dual controls, alongside some air-to-air refuelling of another jet from a Union flag-bedecked plane.
Breathing apparatus on his face, he turned the camera towards the rest of the formation and gave a thumbs-up.
“We did a fantastic loop the loop and then I did a more complicated thing called a barrel roll and I pushed the stick up and right a bit!” he gushed today.
Downing Street insisted no taxpayers’ money was involved as the costs will be billed back to Mr Johnson – or a donor could volunteer to pick up the tab.
After his barrel roll “we started to pull a few Gs, as they say, quite a few Gs.
“When I came back to consciousness I could see the sea getting closer and closer and I started to dream about this incredible forest of windfarms I could see, all over the North Sea.
