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Mind your language

Is Boris Johnson standing for Parliament — or running for it?

<p class="p1">Yes, this is an Americanism – but it hardly blew in yesterday</p>

16 August 2014

9:00 AM

16 August 2014

9:00 AM

‘Boris Johnson broke cover yesterday to declare that he will run for parliament,’ the Times reported last week. The Mirror had him running too. The Independent and the Guardian had him standing for Parliament. The Express said rather oddly that he would ‘stand as an MP’, as did the Evening Standard, though the latter made amends by speculating that Zac Goldsmith was being urged ‘to stand as the Tory candidate for Mayor of London’.

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