It looks set to be the match of the century – the possible next prime minister versus the future queen’s sister.
Boris Johnson has accepted Pippa Middleton’s challenge to play a game of ping pong after she heard his family were ‘almost as competitive’ as her own.
‘Bring it on, Boris,’ said 29-year-old Miss Middleton as she laid down the gauntlet in the Spectator magazine.
The 48-year-old mayor of London, who refers to table tennis as ‘whiff-whaff’, called Pippa’s bluff by writing on Twitter that he was ‘game if she is’.