The first thing Boris announced after becoming mayor was that booze would no longer be tolerated on London transport, to the general puzzlement and irration of most Londoners. In sofar as there were problems with alcohol on the Tube it was drunks, not drink that caused them, people going home from pubs or clubs, not getting tanked up on the Underground. Nevertheless from June the first booze would be verboten on the Tube, so from today the decent honest working Londoner should be spared the embarassement of sharing his train with drunken louts.
The plod wasn’t happy:
Another blunder, Boris?