Boris the jellyfish stings again

Boris Johnson has just reminded us how potent he can be at undermining the government right here, right now. At a press conference today on the Olympic legacy, the Mayor of London said:

‘The government totally understands people’s appetite for this: they can see the benefits of sport and what it does for young people. They understand very, very clearly the social and economic advantages. I would like to see, frankly, the kind of regime I used to enjoy – compulsory two hours’ sport every day.’

And there we have it. Boris deploys his old trick of appearing to flatter the government while also managing to brief against it. It was only yesterday that the Prime Minister was defending the decision to scrap the two hours a week target, yet Boris has managed to up the target that he’d like to a whopping two hours a day. I’ve just spoken to Eton, who confirmed that their boys do indeed play that much sport each day.