Boris Johnson: three people have the same idea

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Boris Johnson: three people have the same idea

By Mark Pack | Wed 9th April 2008 - 10:25 pm

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It looks like great minds think alike, or something like that … because three different people have lighted on the same extract from last night’s Newsnight London Mayor debate and put it up on YouTube.

It was the moment when Jeremy Paxman started questioning Boris Johnson about his bus policy and how much it would really cost. Bringing back shades of his famous confrontation with Michael Howard when he repeatedly asked the same question as Howard refused to answer, Paxman asked again and again for details and Boris failed to supply them:

(The other two are here and here.)

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