I did.
I just thought that Boris had too big an ego not to stand. But having been stabbed in the front by Cameron electing to resign and then stabbed in the back by Gove, he had little chance of getting through.
The irony, of course, is that if he had been one of the final two, he'd probably...
One thing that's interesting about the choice: for a party whose main support is in England, there are rather few English candidates. In fact, it looks likely that there won't be a single native-born Englishman standing. I bet that's never happened before