santos live in our london bureau following this story. nina, with johnson being the front-runner among conservatives against his rival jeremy hunt, are the questions over what happened at his home having any effect on him so far politically? >> well, they are having an effect on him in terms of media coverage, yet again he and his girlfriend are plattered across the tabloids and newspapers for the third day in a row, george. one of the papers in particular, "the times" here, as you can see, has an opinion piece written by his rival jeremy hunt in which jeremy hunt calls boris johnson a coward. he says he doesn't particularly want to hear about the details of his private life, but what he does want to hear about is his policies and so see boris johnson essentially answer those kind of questions that you saw the radio of the, ian dale, put to him on the stage there in birmingham. in the first of one of 16