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Conservative MPs flirting with defecting to Ukip are "utterly nuts", the voice of reason Boris Johnson has warned.
Writing in his Daily Telegraph column, the mayor of London - who will stand as an MP in a safe Tory seat next year - said any move towards Nigel Farage's party would only end up helping Labour.
"There are only two people who are in a position to take the keys to Downing Street next May, and they are David Cameron or Ed Miliband. I know that you disagree vehemently with most of what Ed Miliband says and does – and so I must urge you not to allow the disaster of a Miliband premiership," he wrote.
"If you really want to let this country sleepwalk into a Labour government, then that is your prerogative. You can close your eyes and let it happen. You kip if you want to; the rest of us are going to fight and win."
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