Downstream

have preferred David to leave
the water at Vauxhall, which
they say would have been a
safer option, and when he
wanted to swim to the barrier
there were ‘tense
negotiations’. The PLA
presented him with the
hazards and there was a
debate between ending at
Vauxhall and Westminster.
As for potentially falling ill
from swimming in the
Thames, ‘he said he’d be