Prime minister hits the local election campaign trail, where he’s more than happy to take voters for a ride
Life was sweet for Boris Johnson on the last day of the local elections campaign. He’d yet again wriggled out of doing any broadcast interviews – he’d sent out Nadhim Zahawi, his latest fall guy, for the second time inside a week to take the hit on any stray questions about £840-a-roll wallpaper – and the morning found him going for a gentle bike ride along the canal with the West Midlands mayor, Andy Street.
True, the conversation hadn’t got off to the best of starts with Andy pointing out that he had once been boss of John Lewis and what the hell was wrong with John Lewis furniture? But Boris had soon won him over by blaming Carrie for the Downing Street décor and that he’d have been quite happy with John Lewis furniture. Hell, he’d had to sleep on a John Lewis sofa often enough in the past when kicked out of the bedroom after yet another affair had been rumbled.
