Boris Johnson says he feels guilty about his journalism

During school visit prime minister reveals doubts over abusing or attacking people'

Boris Johnson quit journalism for politics because he felt guilty about abusing or attacking people" without putting himself in their shoes, he told a group of schoolchildren on Tuesday.

I was like a journalist for a long time, I still am really, I still write stuff," he told pupils at Sedgehill Academy in south-east London. But when you're a journalist, it's a great, great job, it's a great profession, but the trouble is that you sometimes find yourself always abusing people or attacking people."