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Question: Sources close to the UK foreign secretary said the two men had spoken at about 2100 GMT for ten minutes about building a strong UK/US relationship.
The BBC understands it was Mr Pence's first call to an overseas politician.
On Thursday Mr Johnson said critics of Mr Trump's victory should end the "collective whinge-o-rama" and be positive about the possibilities.
Mr Johnson, who last year suggested that Mr Trump had been "out of his mind" for suggesting a ban on Muslims entering the US, has insisted the UK should be optimistic about the future following Mr Trump's victory.
At a press conference on Thursday, before speaking to Mr Pence, he said it was time to be "overwhelmingly positive about the possibilities" of a Donald Trump presidency and described the US president-elect as a "deal maker".
"I believe that this is a great opportunity for us in the UK to build on that relationship with America that is of fundamental economic importance to us, but also, great importance for the stability and prosperity of the world," Mr Johnson said.
"I would respectfully say to my beloved European friends and colleagues that it's time that we snapped out of the general doom and gloom about the result of this election and collective 'whinge-o-rama' that seems to be going on in some places."
Meanwhile Downing Street has rejected claims that ministers will be forced to use UKIP leader Nigel Farage as a "go-between" with the new Trump administration.
The Daily Telegraph reported ministers would have to seek the advice of UKIP's interim leader because they have no links to the president-elect.
But sources close to the prime minister told the BBC that Mr Trump, who defeated Hillary Clinton in a huge upset, favoured a relationship with Theresa May as close as that of former UK and US leaders Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.
Mr Trump invited Mrs May to visit Washington during a phone call on Thursday in which both stressed the importance of UK/US relations.
BBC political correspondent Iain Watson says Downing Street has been "hugely irritated" with the claim ministers were seeking the services of Mr Farage in forging links with the Trump administration.
"The story is politically important because Mrs May does not want to give UKIP an opportunity to bask in the 'reflected glory' of a Trump victory," he adds.
International Trade Secretary Liam Fox has also insisted he has no intention of using Mr Farage as a go-between.
However, BBC Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt says Mr Fox has the best connections in Westminster with established Republicans but has never met Mr Trump.
He says it would not be a surprise if Mr Fox and Mr Farage had an informal conversation before the minister contacts Mr Trump's team.
A source close to Mr Farage made it clear that he had no intention of working with Conservative ministers.
Meanwhile, senior Conservatives have been swift to strike a more emollient tone towards Mr Trump since Tuesday's election.

Answer: US Vice President-elect Mike Pence called Boris Johnson on Thursday night, the BBC understands.


Question: Auditor General for Scotland, Caroline Gardner, said the senior staff received payments "that exceeded the terms of the college's severance scheme".
Coatbridge College become part of New College Lanarkshire last year. A total of 39 staff left at a cost of Â£1.7m.
The auditor general's report showed Â£849,842 of this went on seven staff.
New College Lanarkshire was formed by a merger of Motherwell, Cumbernauld and Coatbridge Colleges.
Ms Gardner's audit of the merger process found "serious weaknesses in governance relating to severance arrangements" at Coatbridge College.
The auditor general's report states: "The proposed severance scheme for senior staff offered terms that were significantly higher than the Scottish Funding Council's guidance and the schemes of the other colleges that merged to form New College Lanarkshire."
The report found that a total of Â£849,842 had been paid in severance deals to the college principal, five members of the senior management team and a member of staff within the principal's office.
It concluded: "The college did not retain sufficient evidence (minutes and business cases) that severance proposals, and salary enhancements, had been subject to a value for money assessment."
The report said there was an "absence of any evidence that the remuneration committee had access to the information and advice it needed to fulfil its responsibilities".
It also observed that "the principal failed to take the steps needed to demonstrate that the inherent conflicts of interest were properly handled".
Overall, the report concluded: "The poor decision-making and record-keeping has resulted in potentially unnecessary costs being incurred by the college and is likely to affect public perception of the quality of college governance."

Answer: Management at the former Coatbridge College have been strongly criticised for paying themselves overly generous severance deals before a merger.


Question: The Public Accounts Committee criticised the Department for Transport (DfT) for buying stock itself for the Intercity Express programme and the Thameslink project.
The MPs also said it was "extremely disappointing" that the Thameslink carriages would not be built in the UK.
The DfT said the schemes would "bring enormous benefits to passengers".
The committee said the government had decided to lead on the procurement on the two schemes, "despite having no previous experience of doing so".
The contracts are to supply, finance and maintain the new carriages. Previously, this would be done by the train operating companies, the report said.
But in this instance, the DfT had decided to intervene because of the "massive scale and complexity of both procurements".
A Hitachi-led consortium is supplying 866 new carriages for the Intercity Express programme, which will replace ageing trains on the Great Western and East Coast lines.
In the other contract, German company Siemens is supplying 1,140 new Thameslink coaches to provide improved capacity on cross-London rail routes.
The combined cost of the two contracts is about £10.5bn.
The report said that by buying the trains directly, the DfT had taken on the risk of passenger forecasts being wrong.
"If demand proves to be lower than forecast, taxpayers would have to cover the costs of any financial shortfall," it said.
"These two major projects also demonstrate yet again that the department has limited capacity and capability to manage large-scale procurements, and that it remains overly reliant on consultants."
The MPs welcomed Hitachi's decision to build 592 carriages in County Durham, creating a reported 900 new jobs, but committee chairwoman Margaret Hodge added: "It is extremely disappointing that Siemens will not also be manufacturing the Thameslink carriages in the UK, when the £2.8bn contract is funded by the UK taxpayer and farepayer."
The MPs said the government should be "more assertive" in asking for information from contractors in this area.
Siemens is building the 1,140 carriages in Germany, but claims up to 2,000 jobs will be created in the UK supply chain.
Mick Cash, general secretary of the RMT transport union, said: "The companies using these trains get to privatise the profits while the public get to shoulder over £10bn of risks. It is an absolute disgrace."
A DfT spokesman said: "Successive governments have considered how best to deliver these orders and have come to the same conclusion, that government should lead with expert support and advice from the train operating companies.
"IEP and Thameslink are making excellent progress and are on track to deliver very good value for taxpayers and improved services for passengers. They are also creating thousands of new jobs across the UK rail industry."

Answer:
Taxpayers have been left "bearing all the risk" from purchases of new trains worth £10.5bn, MPs say.


