Schoolboy rivalries never quite go away - just look at the ongoing competition between Boris Johnson and David Cameron. Even though it was Cameron who held up Johnson’s arm in a symbolic victory gesture after Boris became Mayor of London in 2008, you wonder if Cameron had his doubts. After all, Cameron never actually approached Johnson about the post, initially choosing Nicholas Boles as the...

A couple of interesting articles from Fredrick Forsyth and Boris Johnson today. Both are of particular interest because they challenge David Cameron on two of his current mantras. First, his idea that Britain is “broken” and second, that we should do more to assist Georgia. Boris Johnson is perhaps the most unusual of the two. In

The idea that Boris Johnson and David Cameron are close friends has been buried for good For a long time, many observers assumed that, because David Cameron and Boris Johnson went to Eton and Oxford together, they must be close friends. Andrew Gimson, Boris's biographer, was one of the first journalists to expose that a myth and to make the point that the two contemporaries are not friends, b...

Mayor of London Boris Johnson fails to give a straight answer when he is asked if David Cameron should resign over appointing Andy Coulson as his communications chief.

You say that we claim in our biography of the Tory leader that David Cameron and Boris Johnson "share a mutual loathing" (Boris's verdict on himself: six and a half out of ten, 30 April). This is not quite right. To our understanding, they get on reasonably enough on the surface, but do not admire one another as they might. As we wrote: "Although Cameron is not consciously hostile to Johnson ...

Boris Johnson has shown that he is the only senior elected Tory who is ready to stand up to Cameron, writes Andrew Gimson.

David Cameron, the Prime Minister, cracks jokes at the expense of Boris Johnson and Kenneth Clarke at the Natural History Museum.

Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, has urged David Cameron, the Conservative leader, to follow his example and cut public spending in order to freeze taxes.

Boris Johnson is more popular than even David Cameron amongst Tory activists, a major survey revealed yesterday. The survey conducted by ConservativeHome, gives Boris a net satisfaction rating of plus 86 per cent, a full three points ahead of his once boss David Cameron. The result will further fuel the rivalry between the pair, on a day in which Boris Johnson makes his debut conference speech as ...

Dave Hill's London blog gives us this little vignette from former Tory Deputy Mayor Ian Clement on the relationship between Boris Johnson and David Cameron. Shades of Brown and Blair, methinks: "I was in a meeting with Boris when his mobile rang. It was David Cameron calling. You could hear him shouting down the phone about Boris's plan for the Thames estuary airport. Boris calmly held t...