BORIS JOHNSON’S attack on Virgin Trains for deciding to stop stocking the Daily Mail, calling it an “absurd” and “pompous” ban that resembles censorship, exposes the Foreign Secretary as a two-faced hypocrite.

Johnson’s first action after being elected mayor of London in 2008 was to ban all copies of the Morning Star from City Hall.

The cost was minimal and many staff appreciated the alternative news service provided by our paper, but the Tory mayor’s overriding consideration was censorship of a critical voice.