Boris always drew a crowd on visits to York

Boris Johnson has visited York on a number of occasions, always drawing a crowd and grabbing the headlines.

Here are a few of the stories we have covered involving the man who is about to quit as PM.

He came here in May 2016 on the Brexit campaign trail:

Video: Boris Johnson in York – Told off for ‘talking rubbish’ before taking on an egg-thrower

The following year the then Foreign Secretary was spinning at the University of York after the General Election debate between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn.

In July 2019, the Boris Johnson roadshow returned to York as he took on Jeremy Hunt in the Conservative Party leadership hustings at the Barbican.

Pictures: Boris Johnson hits York – and takes on Jeremy Hunt in battle to be Prime Minister

In 2020 he didn’t come in person but sent his representatives to York after he proposed moving the House of Lords to the city:

House of Lords ‘to move to York’, under audacious Boris Johnson plan

He passed through the city via York Station with York Outer Conservative MP Julian Sturdy in November last year:

Pictures: ‘Was he looking for Eton Mess?’ Boris Johnson calls at York Station cake stall

And he’s also visited North Yorkshire. He met officers on a trip to the county’s police HQ in Northallerton in July 2020:

Boris Johnson visits North Yorkshire Police – Pictures

And he was in Selby talking all things railways in 2021:

Boris Johnson is in Selby – to defend rail plan that critics have called ‘a betrayal of the North’