A classic return?

SIGNING off as PM, Boris Johnson echoed Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator movie character: ‘Hasta la vista, baby.’

With more and more Conservative members – plus three-quarters of a poll of The Mail+ readers – wanting him to stay, they’ll hope the great boosterist has left the door open to a political comeback.

In 2008, questioned about his Tory leadership ambitions, he quoted the Latin classics: ‘If like Cincinnatus I am brought from the plough, it would be a privilege.’

In their hour of need, that retired Roman statesman left his farm to serve his people. Who knows if Boris has green fingers. But if the Tories flounder, could this remarkable politician resist the call to return?