It’s not just Any Questions? that Boris has chickened out of:

From: [removed]@timeout.com
Date: 31 Mar 2008 12:25  
Subject: Time Out Mayoral Hustings

[…]

We were excited and proud to be able to offer you direct access to all four main candidates on one platform, which would give you an opportunity to quiz them in person on their plans for our city. Disappointingly, Boris Johnson, who had initially confirmed his place at this hustings, has withdrawn from the event and so will NOT be attending. I’ll leave you to surmise what this says about the Tory mayoral candidate and his commitment to London.

Quite.

Edit: it seems The Tory Troll also received this e-mail, and has been reminded of a pertinent quote from The Times from a few weeks ago about how Boris is renowned for his unreliability and for often failing to turn up to events:

There is hardly a senior soul in this business who hasn’t turned up to an evening with Boris, to discover that it is an evening with anyone but. “I’m sorry,” says the chair, anticipating the boos of disappointment, “but Boris Johnson is unable to be with us.” followed by some lie.

…And another quick edit to point out that another blogger, Dave Cole, has also picked up on this.

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