Just seen a great report on Channel 4 News (I assume the video will be added to that rather thin page at some point). The Daily Mirror filmed David Cameron cycling through red traffic lights and performing various other misdemeanours.

Quite amusing (not to mention annoying for those of us who obey the rules when we cycle but are given a bad name by the minority who don’t!), but Boris got himself a bit tangled up when Channel 4’s reporter caught up with him at Borough Market.

He said there should be zero tolerance for cyclists breaking the road traffic regulations, slipping into one of his plethora of pre-prepared bland lines (which seem to be his main tactic against the risk of coming out with a blunder - well, that and the fact that he’s been ordered to stay off the drink for a couple of months).

For once (good old Channel 4 News), the reporter actually followed up on what he’d just said, asking what his zero tolerance approach meant he thought about his party leader’s misbehaviour. For the first time in a while (thanks to a combination of the aforementioned tactics and hitherto woeful journalistic scrutiny), Boris was visibly flustered, and paused for a moment, before coming out with the hopeless riposte: “Show me the evidence!”

The report immediately cut to the Mirror’s footage again.

I do hope Channel 4 News does a lot more coverage of the Mayoral election in the coming weeks.

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