MP attacks 'leftie Ceremony'
Downing Street has distanced itself from comments made by the Conservative MP Aidan Burley on Twitter about the "most leftie Opening Ceremony I have ever seen." The backbencher has partially withdrawn his comments.
London Mayor dismisses 'leftie ceremony' complaints as 'nonsense'
Boris Johnson today dismissed suggestions the Olympic opening ceremony had been too left-wing.
London's Mayor described the event in the Olympic Stadium, watched by a global audience of around one billion, as a triumph for Great Britain.
He said:
"It was actually the truth about this country in the last two or three hundred years told in a big, dynamic way.
"People say it was all leftie stuff. That is nonsense. I'm a Conservative and I had hot tears of patriotic pride from the beginning. I was blubbing like Andy Murray."
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