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		</div><p>The British Prime Minister harboured ambitions to be a rock star and a supermarket tycoon, he has revealed.</p>
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<p>A different career path could also have seen Boris Johnson as a kitchen tile designer, a plan he admitted was a “total flop”.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson on Friday shared his early ambitions with a group of budding young journalists during a question and answer session, which also saw him disclose that he misses cycling, and managed to give his security guards the slip on a few occasions during his time as foreign secretary.</p>
<blockquote><p>I briefly thought I could be a musician, a rock star</p></blockquote>
<p>The British Prime Minister was asked if he always wanted to lead the country, and replied: “I had various ambitions.</p>
<p>“I briefly thought I could be a musician, a rock star, but that didn’t get very far.</p>
<p>“Then I thought I would own a chain of multi-brand supermarkets and be a tycoon, but that didn’t get very far.”</p>
<p>Then came a plan to make tiles, he said, adding: “I wanted to make kitchen tiles and that was a total flop.”</p>
<p>“It goes to show you’ve got to try a lot of things first,” the British Prime Minister said.</p>
<p>In response to a later question he referred back to his rock star ambitions, saying he had learned the opening chords to Deep Purple’s Smoke On The Water.</p>
<p>The youngsters, aged nine to 14, all of whom are interested in journalism and politics, had been invited to Downing Street, and asked Mr Johnson questions on a range of topics from the NHS to Hogwarts.</p>
<blockquote><p>I haven&#8217;t used my bicycle for ages. I do miss it</p></blockquote>
<p>One youngster asked the Prime Minister, a well-known cyclist, if he stills gets to cycle now that he is in Number 10.</p>
<p>“I don’t, unfortunately my bicycle is locked in Parliament. I haven’t used my bicycle for ages. I do miss it,” he replied.</p>
<p>This is not because he is “a danger to the public” Mr Johnson added, but because there is a risk that “somebody may try to attack me”.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson said he cycled “everywhere” as mayor of London, with no security, and “nobody ever tried to knock me off my bike”.</p>
<p>Later he was asked about his security detail as Prime Minister, and whether guards follow him every day.</p>
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<p>“They do, it’s absolutely true, they do,” he replied.</p>
<p>“I have to say, when I was foreign secretary I did manage to evade them a few times, but I perhaps shouldn’t go into that.”</p>
<p>Another boy, who said he had personal experience of the NHS, asked the British Prime Minister to promise not to privatise the NHS.</p>
<p>“I promise not to privatise it,” he said. “I’ve told (US President) Donald Trump it is not up for sale or on the table for any negotiation of any kind.”</p>
<p>Mr Johnson also demonstrated his knowledge of Harry Potter, or lack thereof, when he was asked which Hogwarts house he thought he would belong to.</p>
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<p>He asked another student which house she would be, before giving the same answer, saying: “OK, I’d be Ravenclaw.”</p>
<p>“I’m not as good on Harry Potter as I should be,” he added.</p>
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