He promised to "love bomb" his Tory opponents and thanked Mr Hunt for his "font of excellent ideas, all of which I intend to steal forthwith".
Conceding his campaign was hampered by his vote to remain in the EU, Mr Hunt said the new Tory leader would be "a great PM for our country at this critical moment".
The list of reasons which should have disqualified Mr Johnson from any serious consideration for the post is a lengthy one, but a majority of his party's members have used a curious form of logic to decide that he is the only person who can extract them from the Brexit catastrophe which he did so much to create in the first place.
He recently expressed a commitment to dropping the backstop, but even the DUP figures who have lined up in support of him will be acutely aware of his well-publicised u-turn on the same issue a matter of months previously.
"I would just suggest that you look at what he has been writing over the years".
Continuing the upbeat theme, Mr Johnson added: "Like some slumbering giant, we are going to rise and ping off the guy ropes of self-doubt and negativity".
Japan lodges protest against South Korea, Russia for jet incident - Kyodo
South Korea's MoD said that the Chinese and Russian aircraft were "engaged in coordinated maneuvering" while flying in the KADIZ. A South Korean Air Forces KF-16 fighter takes off at an air base in Gunsan, South Korea , on April 20, 2017.
Mr Peters rejected Treasury and Business New Zealand's statements that a no-deal Brexit - which Mr Johnson has highlighted as a possibility - would not be good for New Zealand because of Britain's lack of infrastructure to handle imports. It means six ministers have said they will not work for Mr Johnson.
The new Conservative leader will take office on Wednesday afternoon following an audience with the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Mrs May, who will resign today, offered her congratulations, but stressed Mr Johnson should work "to deliver a Brexit that works for the whole UK". 'We will get rid of this small technical problem of Brexit, ' he told reporters.
He was confident New Zealand stood to gain from Brexit.
Mr Johnson inherits an in-tray also containing demands for independence in Scotland, a decision on whether to allow China's Huawei to build Britain's 5G network and escalating tensions in the Gulf following Iran's seizure of a British registered tanker last week.
After appointing his cabinet - expected to be a majority Brexiteer grouping - Boris" most important challenge will be the Iranian Gulf Crisis that has been in a "limbo" as the United Kingdom was essentially "rudderless' with lame duck Theresa May who took THREE days to return to chair a COBRA meeting. Does he have the courage to deliver?'
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