Way back in 2014 I was a lobby reporter for Politics.co.uk and part of my job involved covering the then London Mayor Boris Johnson.
One evening that year I attended Johnson’s annual question and answer session with Londoners called ‘State of London’ at the O2.
As part of my job I live-tweeted the event and noted that the then Mayor was getting a hard time from the audience on the issue of housing.
The event’s host Nick Ferrari read out my fairly bland tweet and attributed it to me.
Adam Bienkov@AdamBienkov
Boris getting a very rough ride from the audience on housing. Clearly now the big issue in London #askboris
6:51 PM · Jun 25, 2014
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However, when Ferrari mentioned my name it provoked an extraordinary reaction from Johnson. You can watch the remarkable exchange below in full to see for yourself.