Boris on the today program ...again...

This thing about turning left on a red light is a non-starter. Especially as he cites it as a way to reduce people being killed by left-turning lorries. If the cyclists were turning left too, they wouldn't end up being under the lorries. They're trying to go ahead, mostly, one would assume, having followed his advice of filtering to the front, rather than hanging back 'punctiliously' behind an LGV indicating left.

He's a mass of contradictions, that man.

Humph is just a nasty piece of work.
You can get squeezed by lorries if you are both turning left, as the rear wheels start cutting in to tighten the turn. I think the idea of left turns at red is worth looking at, because you can filter into traffic quite easily, and it's another way of reducing the need to wait at junctions with cars.

Humphrey, obviously ignorant of the cycle death statistics, is probably acting on some misplaced desire to reject what he sees as the sexist suggestion that women are less competent on the road.