The Suggitts Lane bridge - awaiting a visit from Mr Johnson
A RETURN trip to Cleethorpes and Grimsby is likely to be high on the agenda for Boris Johnson if he makes a successful bid to return to 10 Downing Street.
The former Prime Minister has unfinished business in the two towns.
He is eager to cut the ribbon at an official opening of the new Suggitts Lane railway footbridge in Cleethorpes having been instrumental in getting it built when Nework Rail closed the previous crossing.
He also wants to visit Grimsby anew as a way both of thanking the town for backing him so spectacularly at the last General Election and of rewarding Conservative MP Lia Nici for her devoted support during all his trials and tribulations.
If he were to be elected, Ms Nici would almost certainly be promoted from her present position as as Assistant Chief Whip to a post in the Cabinet.
Whether Cleethorpes MP Martin Vickers would be offered a job in a new Johnson-led administration is less likely.
Though formerly a Johnson supporter, he became increasingly disillusioned over Partygate and other scandals that made many question the integrity of the former Prime Minister.
Although he has not confirmed this to be the case, it is thought that Mr Vickers would favour Rishi Sunak whom he voted for - in preference to Liz Truss - in the previous contest.
Elsewhere on the local political scene, it is believed that the leader of North East Lincolnshire Council, Philip Jackson, would like to see Peggy Mordaunt take over from Ms Truss.
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