Boris Johnson’s strained love affair with the motorist
At least, if he keeps to his green promises
REVIEWING THE new MG, a dinky sports car, the motoring correspondent of GQ magazine fondly recalled a trip of his youth in an earlier model. With only two seats, a female fellow passenger balanced on his thighs, “which was my secret plan”. “After a quarter of an hour of bouncing down the M40, the contours of my lap are, topographically speaking, beginning to resemble the gear stick,” he explained. Later, the woman turned around, “and her chest is in my face, and oooooof...”
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The petrol party”
Britain August 14th 2021
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