Monday nights are rarely the booziest in Parliament but yesterday proved to be an exception. For Boris Johnson was up before the 1922 committee in the Attlee Suite — an ‘oddly appropriate setting,’ as one right-winger muttered to Mr S darkly.
Highlights included veteran Telegraph columnist Chris Hope nearly being diverted into the room last night after security thought he was a Conservative backbencher, while actual MP and alleged ‘pork pie plotter’ Chris Loder was initially blocked. Despite looking ashen-faced with fear, and protesting that ‘they won’t let me in,’ he was eventually escorted through.
Inside the room itself, there was much excited chatter about the return of the Antipodean election extraordinaire Lynton Crosby. Others enjoyed Johnson’s response to longtime ‘awkward squad’ member Philip Davies bemoaning Buy One, Get One Free offers being banned in shops; the PM’s paean to freedom left Sajid Javid’s junior Maria Caulfield squirming in her seat as Johnson ad-libbed public health policy on the hoof.
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