Politicians are notorious for using kids as political pawns. Think of all the baby kissing that presidential candidates do.

The Mayor of London, however, apparently didn’t get the memo.

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Boris Johnson was playing touch rugby while on a trade visit to Japan on Thursday, when he tackled a 10-year-old boy:

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