Horse, camel - it's all meat and drink to Boris

 
22 April 2013

In Abu Dhabi last week Boris Johnson was pictured looking game as he was served a dish of camel meat. Over the weekend, at the British Embassy in Doha, Qatar, the Mayor revealed his thoughts on the local delicacy at a party to celebrate the Queen’s Birthday. “And why shouldn’t you eat camel, by the way?” he opined rhetorically. “After all, as everyone now knows, in London we eat horsemeat.”

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