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Boris Johnson faces mounting pressure to submit to public scrutiny, after his rival in the race to be UK prime minister tried to turn questions about the front-runner’s character to his advantage.
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, the underdog candidate in the contest to lead the ruling Conservative Party, called on Johnson to take part in more media interviews and debates after he refused to answer questions this weekend about a noisy row with his partner that brought police to a London house.
“A new prime minister needs the legitimacy of having made his arguments publicly and having them subjected to scrutiny,†Hunt wrote in the Times. “Only then can you walk through the front door of No 10 with your head held high instead of slinking through the back door, which is what Boris appears to want.†The furor has thrown open a race that was previously expected to be more of a coronation than a contest.