Tories’ enemy’s enemy is also their enemy
guardian.co.uk has coverage of the fallout from the Telegraph article we blogged about last night, in which Simon Heffer tore Boris to shreds.
Sir Peregrine Worsthorne has also attacked Boris, so Boris-backers are quite annoyed with them both for daring to reveal the truth about their naked golden boy.
It’s also interesting to see a bit more gaffophobia creeping in on the last day of the campaign:
Johnson has been accused of attempting to avoid press scrutiny by BBC Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine.
"Have any listeners seen a tall man with yellow hair in a blue suit?" the presenter asked his audience after the Conservative candidate failed to appear on his lunchtime show. "He’s called Boris Johnson. Because if we don’t hear from him in one minute we’re doing a mayoral debate without him."
He added: "It’s very odd that noone can find Boris a day before the mayoral election. Has he just walked past that cafe you’re sitting in? Call us if you spot him."
It’s pathetic that even at this late stage he still doesn’t feel sufficiently on top of his brief to bother turning up to things like this. Let’s hope enough people reach the realisation that he ‘has no clothes’ before they put their crosses in boxes tomorrow.