Boris Johnson admitted he had ridden his bike on a pavement (Picture: PA/Getty)

The naughtiest thing the Prime Minister is prepared to admit is riding his bike on the pavement.

Boris Johnson did acknowledge he’d done much worse but told the Sky News Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme he did not want to reveal what that was.

He had previously been asked the question by Sky News during the election campaign but said he needed more time to think about it.

When asked by Ms Ridge today whether he had given his naughtiest deed any more thought, he said: ‘Oh no, not this again’, before asking his aides to provide him with suggestions of bad things they had witnessed him do.




He then confessed to having cycled on the pavement in the past.

The Prime Minister is a keen bike rider (Picture: Getty Images)

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The Conservative Party leader said: ‘I think I may sometimes, how can I put this, I may sometimes when I was riding a bicycle every day – which I used to do – I may sometimes have not always obeyed the law about cycling on the pavement.

‘But I want you to know how firmly and strongly I disapprove of people who cycle on the pavement and I think it’s wrong and I feel bad about it but I might sometimes have scooted up onto the pavement rather than dismounting before.’

Asked if that was actually the naughtiest thing he had ever done, he replied: ‘No, no, it was a very careful rubric. What you said was the naughtiest thing that I was prepared to admit…’

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he’d done much worse but was not willing to reveal it (Picture: PA)

The same question brought one of the stand-out moments of the 2017 election campaign when Theresa May said her naughtiest moment was running through fields of wheat on local farms when she was growing up.

The answer was widely mocked.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told ITV’s Julie Etchingham last week the ‘most romantic sort of wild and reckless’ thing he had done was going on holiday with his wife.

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