Campaigners said that it was heartwarming how supportive this year’s Pride was of trans people (see 5.53pm). Later on Saturday, Johnson, declared that “Britain leads the world in LGBT+ equality” and tweeted what appeared to be a historic photo of himself wearing a pink cowboy hat (see 2.28pm).
After opening the Pride parade, Sadiq Khan attacked Tory leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson for using “homophobic language”, in apparent reference to an article he wrote two decades ago calling gay men “tank-topped bumboys”.
