Boris Backs Gay Marriage In New YouTube Video

Boris Finally Backs Gay Marriage..

Boris Johnson has added his voice to the campaign urging the law to be changed to allow gay marriage, the latest in a string of high-profile Tory politicians to do so.

Describing marriage as a "happy state" which is bucking a national trend by increasing in London, Boris uses a Youtube video to say he believes gay couples should be entitled to get involved.

The Mayor of London famously said in 2001: ""If gay marriage was OK - and I was uncertain on the issue - then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men, or indeed three men and a dog."

He is also on record as saying gay marriage "can only ever be a ludicrous parody of the real thing", but Boris changed his mind on all of this more than two years ago, when he told the website Pink News:

"If the Conservatives and Liberals can get together in a national coalition and settle their differences, I don't see why you can't have gay marriage".

It'll come as a relief for David Cameron that Boris Johnson - a contender to succeed Cameron as Tory leader - actually agrees with him on a policy. The Mayor of London has been criticising government decisions for several days, particularly over the selling off of playing fields and targets for teaching PE in schools.

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