"What I would say to Boris, what I have said to Boris, is that for the first time a government has properly put all the options, including estuary options, on the table, " he said.
Boris Yeltsin and I agreed in principle on this same reduction, and there was no way in the wide world he could get it through the Russian Duma that existed at the time in his second term.
But for the vagaries of the electoral, David Jones and Boris Johnson would be parliamentary neighbours ("I fought Clwyd South - and Clwyd South fought back") so perhaps Mr Jones shouldn't take Mr Johnson's intervention personally.