Lib Dem leader Jo to party: I’m ready for No10

BORIS Johnson was humiliated yesterday for refusing to face the music over his chaotic Brexit strategy.

The PM chickened out of a press conference as he was booed by protesters in Luxembourg.

Furious Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel gestured at the empty podium next to him, where the Tory was due to answer questions, as time runs out to clinch a deal before the October 31 deadline.

He slammed Mr Johnson for playing politics with people’s lives and refusing to put concrete proposals on the table, warning: “The clock is ticking.”

Mr Johnson was also booed and jeered as he left a working lunch with European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker.

A statement released after the meeting in Luxembourg said the PM had failed to propose any “legally operable solutions” to the Brexit stalemate.

Mr Johnson told the BBC he had pulled out of the event because his points would have been “drowned out” by the noise of the protest.

But Labour accused him of running CLAIMS Swinson yesterday NO GREAT SHAKES Boris with Juncker LIB Dem leader Jo Swinson will today claim she is a credible candidate to be Prime Minister.

Her party is battling charges it is anti-democratic after vowing to scrap Brexit without a second referendum. She was repeatedly JEER WE GO Brexit protesters yesterday forced to deny she leads a party that does not respect democracy.

She will say at the party’s conference in Bournemouth – her first since she took the reins in July: “There is no limit to my ambition for our party – and today I am standing here as your candidate for Prime Minister.”

The Lib Dems currently have just 18 MPs. MP Chuka Umunna, who quit Labour and formed Change UK before joining the Lib Dems, said they could win up to 100 of the 650 seats and that Ms Swinson was a “wild card”.

Ms Swinson’s deputy Sir Ed Davey gaffed by admitting people just want to get Brexit “done”. He said: “Outside Westminster, not everyone is obsessed by Brexit.”