Ken Livingstone in BBC News But Mr Livingstone said: "It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook."
Boris Johnson in Globe and Mail The volume of snow shouldn't be an excuse for a mass skive,said London Mayor Boris Johnson, standing shivering and hatless in front of television cameras outside city hall. "In principle, it should be possible for people to do some work,...
Emrys Davies in BBC News We thought it would be a good skive,said Mr Davies. "We didn't realise that when we went across to Normandy we were prime targets, because the Germans were knocking-off officers, NCOs and signallers."