Boris Johnson talks painting cows, quadbikes, kids and whom he’d rather be in a lift with out of Nicola Sturgeon and Keir Starmer in sitdown with close ally Nadine Dorries on her new Talk TV show

• Boris Johnson has done an interview with Nadine Dorries for new Talk TV show
• Gave a glimpse into how he has been spending time since leaving Downing St  

Boris Johnson has given a glimpse into his post-Downing Street life – reading to his children more, doing DIY and painting cows.

The former PM opened up on how he has been filling his time in an interview with close ally Nadine Dorries for her new Talk TV show.

Mr Johnson has kept a relatively low profile since leaving No10 last summer, while many MPs still hope he will make a comeback to the front line.

However, this week he did a series of interviews on a visit to the US, berating Vladimir Putin and urging the UK to send fighter jets to Ukraine.  

opened up on how he has been filling his time in an interview with close ally Nadine Dorries for her new Talk TV show

In the Talk TV appearance – being broadcast at 8pm tonight- Ms Dorries asked him whether he was now able to spend more time with the two small children he share with wife Carrie

In the Talk TV appearance – being broadcast at 8pm tonight- Ms Dorries asked him whether he was now able to spend more time with the two small children he share with wife Carrie.

‘What’s it like being at home with the kids? Are they seeing more of dad?’ she said in clips released today. 

Mr Johnson replied: ‘They are. Yes, and it’s fantastic because you know, I’ve got a very full day… 

‘I’m doing lots of writing. Unless I specifically tell you otherwise, I’m doing stuff for Uxbridge and doing a lot of political work but yeah, it means I can do reading to them… building things. It’s great.’

Mr Johnson – who has previously spoken about his love of model buses – explained that his DIY activity involved constructing a garage for a mini-quad bike.

‘I’m building a garage for the quad bike. Not a big quad bike, it was a miniature quad bike. They’re too small for quad bikes,’ he said.

Mr Johnson also said he was enjoying doing more painting in his spare time. ‘I’ve got a project which is to master the form of the cow,’ he said. 

During a quickfire series of questions, Mr Johnson was pressed on whether he would rather be stuck in a lift with Keir Starmer or Nicola Sturgeon.  

‘Oh brother. Oh actually, it’s like all these things, and I’m sure viewers will understand this, both individuals are actually far nicer and more amusing than you might otherwise imagine,’ he said.

‘The kind of hostility you see between politicians on screen is often not reflected in real life. I think, provided it wasn’t like 50 floors, I wouldn’t mind either of them.’

Mr Johnson has been urging Brits to ignore ‘gloom-mongers’ as senior EU players in the Brexit saga weighed in on three-year anniversary of Brexit. 

The most left-field claim came from wacky former Belgian PM and arch federalist Guy Verhofstadt, who suggested Brexit was to blame for Vladimir Putin’s bloody invasion of Ukraine.

Meanwhile former EU negotiator Michel Barnier suggested that the UK had seen ‘no added value’ from leaving. He also lauded Keir Starmer as ‘a European’, something the Labour leader may not appreciate as he tries to keep his party happy. 

Boris Johnson has hailed Brexit for ‘literally saving lives’ as he was interviewed by close ally Nadine Dorries

Speaking to Ms Dorries, MrJohnson said: ‘Thank goodness that era is behind us but one thing people forget – now let’s pray it’s behind us – but one thing people forget, thinking about the vaccine rollout is there we’ve got the, I think the third anniversary of Brexit, coming up, or the third anniversary of the day when we actually came out of the EU. 

‘You don’t hear it much these days, but it is absolutely the case, that had it not been for our ability to do our own regulation, had it not been for the fact that we’d come out of the European Medicines Agency, the MHRA, the medical health regulation agency, was now totally free to decide how fast to approve the vaccine – we wouldn’t have been able to do that vaccine rollout so fast.

‘And you know, it is literally true that Brexit helped save lives. And people’s eyes bulge a bit when you say that, but it happens to be true… I’m proud of that. I’m proud of all the work that those people did.’

Mr Johnson also addressed the ongoing investigation by the Privileges Committee into his Partygate conduct.

He insisted he will be ‘respectful’ of the process, but said anyone who thought he had deliberately covered up lockdown parties in No10 was ‘out of their mind’. 

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