The Times reports that: ... ‘His four children started at their local state primary but when secondary loomed, “because we live in Islington, I extracted them”. Only one remains there.

“I have no embarrassment about it whatever,” he says, but at the same time he talks passionately about the problems caused by middle-class flight from state education. “It becomes a self-fulfilling problem, self-generating, because the middle classes not having confidence in the schools perpetuates the trouble they experience.”

That’s pretty harsh comment for the teachers and students at the schools that have consistently improved after years of increased government funding. Several Islington schools are now severely oversubscribed.

But the many thousands of pounds worth of private education that Boris received didn’t help his adding up when he miscalculated the cost of his transport plans to the tune of £100 million.

If he’s throwing around accusations of not being up to the job, he might want to look a bit closer to home.