Carrie will play a key role in helping win over doubters
wants to build HS3, a fast rail link across the North.
Among more madcap ideas he has talked of a bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland, cost unknown but sure to be huge, if it is possible at all.
To boost the economy he wants six or more free ports to be set up in the UK. The costs involved are unclear.
He also intends to bring forward the introduction of fibre optic internet connections to everywhere in the country by 2025. Again the cost, and how much would fall on the Government rather than tech companies, remains unspecified.
His proposed Australian-style points system to limit immigration is uncosted but he wants all immigrants to learn English, which will presumably involve expensive tuition provision.
On climate change, the UK is committed to achieving zero carbon emissions by 2050 after an intervention by Theresa May last month and if Mr Johnson sticks to that deadline the cost, though unknown, is assumed to be potentially gigantic. CARRIE Symonds was absent yesterday as her lover Boris Johnson prepared to take over as prime minister.
The PR executive, 31, was nowhere to be seen as Mr Johnson, 55, was named as the new Tory leader. But despite keeping a low profile, Ms Symonds, left, is expected to help steer Mr Johnson through the testing times ahead. One of her first jobs will be to help him win over doubters in his party as he throws a series of private parties at the prime ministerial country residence.
“He has got to schmooze them over the summer with trips to Chequers, making sure he meets them and their other halves,” said a party source. Ms Symonds, the daughter of Matthew Symonds, co-founder of The Independent newspaper, has a full-time job in the City of London, as an adviser with Oceana, a US-based environmental campaign group.
Aides are expected to reveal at the weekend whether she will move into No10 from her flat in Camberwell, south London. She and Mr Johnson would become the first unmarried couple to take up residence there.
Ms Symonds grew up in south-west London. She studied art history and theatre studies at the University of Warwick.
After graduating, she went to work at Conservative headquarters as a press officer.
Three years later, she went to work for Mr Johnson’s London mayoral re-election campaign.