There was a hint of drizzle in the air on that cold April morning as the Prime Minister cycled down Greta Thunberg Way, formerly Whitehall.
He cast an anxious glance at the grey clouds overhead, then turned to his partner Richie, who was cycling alongside him.
‘It’s a pity we couldn’t have had a repeat performance of last year’s weather,’ Zack Polanski said, thinking back to that golden moment exactly 12 months earlier when he had first entered No 10 under blazing sunshine and bright blue skies.
Richie, a physiotherapist who had lived with Zack in Hackney, east London, long before there was
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