In a speech he is expected to deliver tonight in Tel Aviv, London Mayor Boris Johnson will poke some fun at his erstwhile Conservative Party rival, Prime Minister David Cameron.
The London mayor, whose speech has been released to the press, will recall a bacchanal-like dinner ten years ago in Tel Aviv: “I have no idea… whether any animals were involved but all I can say is that whatever took place that evening, it was entirely kosher,” he is due to say.
The speech, at an event honouring the Balfour Declaration, will cap off a frenzied 15-hour day in which Mr Johnson is meeting his Tel Aviv counterpart, Mayor Ron Huldai, Israel’s Interior Minister, Silvan Shalom, and former president Shimon Peres.
Meeting Mr Shalom at the residence of British Ambassador, David Quarry, Mr Johnson waded fearlessly into several of the controversies facing the Israeli government.
