Freewheeling Boris rolls into ‘Super Thursday’, while stumbling Starmer prepares to lick his wounds
It s hard not to pity Sir Keir’s plight – Captain Hindsight if he attacks the Government, or a Tory collaborator if he supports it
5 May 2021 • 9:28pm
The PM was up at crack of dawn to cycle the Stourbridge canal towpath with Andy Street the West Midlands Mayor, in a photo shoot he seemed to enjoy
Credit: Rui Vieira / POOL / AFP
Ahead of “Super Thursday”, Boris Johnson descended on the Midlands like a profligate Easter bird inspecting his golden eggs across the region.
He drank a pint in Wolverhampton – soon to be flush with Future High Streets Funding – spoke warmly of the HS2 interchange at Solihull, and tried out the new West Midlands cycle hire scheme. The Tories may have abandoned London, but Boris hasn’t forgotten his eponymous velocipede.