Boris Johnson pretends to be stunned that India doesn't have Waitrose

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The former Foreign Secretary told voters: 'They have no Waitrose in India. Just imagine that,'

The possibility that any location could exist without a Waitrose was received with loud laughter at the hustings in the village of Wyboston.‘Trade with India has not increased, actually I think volumes have remained almost static. We need to do far more.’

Both he and his rival Jeremy Hunt have been travelling up and down the country in recent weeks as part of their battle to become the next Tory leader and replace Theresa May at Number 10. The pair will have attended 16 events with Conservative party members when the last hustings is held on Wednesday July 17 in London.The new leader is expected to be announced in the week commencing 22 July, following a ballot of more than 160,000 members.As well as the 16 hustings, the campaign has featured several TV debates as voting by MPs whittled down the initial ten candidates down to the final two.

 

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