Mr. Johnson succeeded in turning around the renamed REA Express and landed on the cover of Business Week magazine.

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Boris Johnson succeeded former Deputy Prime Minister Michael Heseltine as MP for Henley at the 2001 general election with a majority of 8, 458.

BBC: Stanley Johnson

Although he scrapped the scheme's western extension zone when he succeeded Mr Livingstone in 2010, Mr Johnson has described the original scheme as a success which had benefited London.

BBC: Has London's congestion charge worked?

Johnson was the governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 and succeeded by Bill Richardson, a man once believed to take over the White House after Bill Clinton.

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