London ( CNN ) -- If only Mitt Romney could turn the Olympic torch on the newspaper headlines in London . He 's the `` Party Pooper '' in the Daily Mail , `` Nowhere Man '' in the Times of London and `` Mitt the Twit '' in The Sun . This was not the storyline Romney and his team wanted when they journeyed overseas for a trip designed to burnish the GOP contender 's foreign policy credentials . Romney has yet to publicly acknowledge the outrage he set off in London when he appeared to question the city 's `` disconcerting '' problems in gearing up for the Olympic Games . In an interview with CNN 's Piers Morgan on Thursday , Romney chuckled when he was asked about the criticism . Romney 's Olympics false start . `` Well , I 'm delighted to see the kind of support that has been around the torch for instance . I watched last night on BBC an entire program about the torch being run across Great Britain . And the kind of crowds . I guess millions of people that turned out to see the torch . That 's what you hope to see , '' Romney told Morgan . Asked about the controversy on NBC 's `` Today '' show , Romney again sidestepped the question but declared London prepared . `` After being here a couple of days it looks to me like London is ready , '' Romney said . The uproar in Britain reached its crescendo Thursday evening when London Mayor Boris Johnson whipped up a crowd of 60,000 revelers at a pre-Olympics celebration with a taunt for the Republican presidential candidate . Johnson is a Tory , theoretically putting him near Romney on the same conservative end of the political spectrum . `` There 's this guy called Mitt Romney who wants to know if we are ready . Are we ready ? Yes we are , '' Johnson shouted at what sounded like a political rally , for President Obama . Meanwhile on Twitter , the hashtag # RomneyShambles was trending on both sides of the Atlantic . For instance , â€ .
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