PM’s flight of fancy as he jokes about firing Tory MPs into orbit

Boris Johnson regales Farnborough airshow with tales of Typhoon jet in speech brimming with metaphors

Boris Johnson has joked about sending critical Conservative MPs into space and recalled doing a fantastic loop the loop" in an RAF Typhoon as he reflected on his premiership in a valedictory speech.

While the race to replace him as prime minister narrowed in Westminster, Johnson told attendees at the Farnborough airshow that after three happy years in the cockpit and after performing some pretty difficult if not astonishing feats", he was going to hand over the controls seamlessly to someone else", but he added: I don't know who."