Photo: Chris Ison/PAFollowing his mauling at the hands of baying journalists yesterday - they threw Mars bars into the Tory press office and chanted his name until he emerged - Boris clambered on stage to join a conference debate.
After what compere Theresa May described as a "sex change", but which turned out to involve some very cosmetic tweaks to the stage, delegates were invited to choose the motion from a rather banal assortment of topics.
Road pricing and "We love the new style conference" were among them. Naturally, they plumped for "Jamie Oliver is a national hero", a topic on which the Tories' higher education spokesman would be bound to have views.
Clearly, Conservative strategists had decided to pre-empt a fifth gaffe rather than trying to move Boris's intellect onto a more stimulating topic. It was a pity. We would all have liked to hear more of Boris's views on the West Lothian question.
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