Boris: 'Potter park should be in UK'

Boris Johnson has admitted that he "deeply and bitterly resents" the decision to build the new Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, Florida.

The mayor of London described the American attraction, which is part of Universal Studios, as the "crowning insult" to the loss of British intellectual property in a new article written for The Telegraph.

He reasoned that the wizarding world of Harry Potter is inherently English and should have been built in London.

"The fact is that Harry Potter is not American. He is British," he wrote.

"Where is Diagon Alley, where they buy wands and stuff? It is in London, and if you want to get into the Ministry of Magic you disappear down a London telephone box. The train for Hogwarts goes from King's Cross, not Grand Central Station, and what is Harry Potter all about? It is about the ritual and intrigue and dorm-feast excitement of a British boarding school of a kind that you just don't find in America."

He added: "Hogwarts is a place where children occasionally get cross with each other – not 'mad' – and where the situation is usually saved by a good old British sense of HUMOUR. WITH A U. RIGHT? NOT HUMOUR. GOTTIT?"

Johnson urged fans to write to Warner Bros in order to "bring Harry home" by relocating the attraction.