Blond bombshell Boris Johnson swept into Chester city centre like a political whirlwind in human form in support of Conservative candidate Stephen Mosley during the last week of the election campaign.

Boris, who went walkabout along Eastgate, was on top form as he stopped for selfies with an enthusiastic public, gave TV interviews and addressed a loyal Tory crowd at The Cross who cheered and applauded at all the right points.

The Mayor of London, who was guest of honour at The Boris Dinner at Chester Racecourse in March, told them: “It’s wonderful to be here in Chester. I was here only, I think, a month or so ago and I can tell you the mood is even more optimistic and confident than it was then.

“I think we are on the verge of winning the most important and closely contested election of modern memory, against the most left-wing Labour leader that we’ve ever seen.

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“And I think it’s a measure of his desperation that yesterday we had one of the most absurd political spectacles this country has ever been treated to.

“Not since the Tzar and Tzarina prostrated themselves and asked for economic guidance from Grigori Rasputin has there been such a ridiculous political pilgrimage as the mission of Ed Miliband, the heir of Keir Hardie (founder of the Labour Party), for heaven’s sake, to seek economic guidance from Russell Brand.

“A pompadour popinjay who thinks people shouldn’t vote and shouldn’t pay their taxes. What total nonsense and a sign, I think, of desperation,” added the mayor who said he’d ‘rather have Russell Hobbs’ than Russell Brand as economic advisor.

Boris jokingly described himself as ‘a humble emissary from what we will in the future call the south eastern economic powerhouse to this great north western economic powerhouse’.

The mayor said 190,000 new jobs had been created in the North West along with 60,000 new businesses with the number of young people not in education, employment, or training at the lowest level in 25 years.

“Only one political party has a plan for the future’, claimed the man, who many believe has ambitions to be Prime Minister one day. He said Labour wanted to take Britain back to ‘a French version of the 1970s’, UKIP wanted to go back to a mythical version of the 1950s or 30s, the Green Party would be happiest in the ‘stone age’ and Lib Dems would ‘settle for any epoch’ where they mustered above 5% in the polls.

He urged the people of Chester to return Stephen Mosley with a ‘thumping majority’.

Speaking to The Chronicle afterwards Boris struggled to remember the last time he went on a walkabout in Chester with the Tory wannabe MP Paul Offer in 2005. “I think I probably did. What happened, can you remember?”

He was familiar with Chester and recalled unsuccessfully fighting the nearby Clwyd South seat in 1997. “I’ve been here loads of times. The honest truth, you want the honest truth? I used to be married to someone who lived not very far away.”

Boris, who was unaware of Ed Miliband being mobbed by a hen party in Chester recently, quipped: “I hope he escaped with his trousers on!”

Had he ever experienced anything similar? “I’m not going to comment on that, for security reasons.”

On his timetable for becoming PM, Boris turned to French in his response: “Donnez moi un break! We’re going to get David Cameron elected Prime Minister.”

Later on, Boris found himself at Chester Cathedral where he enthusiastically took part in the Lego project and laid foundation bricks on the model.

The Chester Cathedral in Lego build project will take 350,000 individual Lego pieces and transform them into an accurate scale model of the cathedral that will reach the size of a small car.

Boris and Stephen Mosley also enjoyed a brief tour conducted by Canon Precentor Jeremy Dussek and heritage manager Nick Fry.

See a gallery of MPs who have paid visits to Chester and Ellesmere Port during the 2015 election campaign.

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