In a speech at the Farnborough Air Show, the prime minister described having taken off as a “vertical firecracker”.
“After a while, the wing commander said to me, ‘Do you want to do this?’ And I said, ‘Are you sure I find it very expensive?’ We only have 148 of them and they cost £ 75 million per pop, and he said, “Don’t worry, you can’t break it.” And I thought, “Oh, famous last words.”
Johnson said he started “pulling out a few G.’s.”
“When I came back to consciousness I could see how the sea was getting closer and closer and I started dreaming about this amazing wind farm forest that I could see, all over the North Sea and I thought about how this government has been In recent years, he has been reclaiming Doggerland, harvesting the drained prairies of the North Sea.
“That dream must have lasted a long time because then my partner said, ‘Now I’m back in control,’ and we left home happy.”