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Jun 30, 2016
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Today has been an extraordinary day in politics, with Boris Johnson announcing he will not stand for the leadership of the Conservative party.
The announcement came at a press conference where he was widely expected to announce a leadership campaign.
The former Mayor of London however, declared precisely the opposite following Michael Gove's shock announcement that he will be running for the leadership.
Political commentators have a rather difficult job, in these frantic post-Brexit times, of summarising exactly what has happened to the Westminster landscape.
We think that BBC News' assistant political editor Norman Smith did a pretty good job.
As Smith quipped:
Et tu, Michael?
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