Boris Johnson has been invited on a tour of Anglesey by the Island s MP. Boris Johnson said Ynys Môn MP Virginia Crosbie was ‘applying the Vicks inhaler to the bunged-up nostrils of the Welsh Dragon’ after she told him a freeport on Anglesey would breathe fire into the mythical animal’s nostrils. Speaking during Prime Minister’s Questions, Virginia said: “Does the Prime Minister - the Prif Weinidog - agree with me that a freeport on Anglesey would create much needed skilled jobs and investment - protect our precious Welsh language and culture - and breathe fire from the nostrils of the Welsh Dragon?”
Did the PM take seriously the threat of foreign variants? Sir Keir grumbled
Credit: Jessica Taylor
Rebellion was in the air at PMQs on Wednesday, but it wasn’t the good old-fashioned backbench kind. Andrew Rosindell stood up, demanding freedom – emancipation for London’s outer boroughs, reform of the capital s governance, liberation from the malign misrule of Sadiq Khan.
He urged the Prime Minister to back his campaign “to allow boroughs like Havering to Take Back Control from the mayor and City Hall interference”.
For a moment, the PM havered. He looked almost tempted to give the Independent Republic of Havering his blessing, but – ever a stranger to false modesty – he contented himself with lavishing praise on a certain former mayor of London – Sadiq’s predecessor. You know, that raffish, tousled one who’d never taken the outer London doughnut for granted. He yearned, self-effacingly for the return of “that glad day, when we have a mayor who truly rep