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It’s been fun watching No.10 try to convince the British public that Boris Johnson couldn’t possibly have taken a mini-break to Perugia last weekend as he was, supposedly, in church. But the strangest bit to us is the suggestion that staff at Perugia airport would fail to correctly identify Boris Johnson. It’s not as if he hasn’t made spectacle of himself there before.
As was widely reported last year, Boris tried to take a discreet trip to Perugia back in 2018, slipping loose from his security in order to attend one of Evgeny Lebedev’s parties. We might never have known the details had Boris not caught the eye of fellow passengers by turning up to the airport absolutely hanging out of his arse, looking like he’d slept in his clothes and unable to walk in a straight line to the plane.
But his appearances there stretch back further. We first wrote in October 2015 about a Popbitch reader who found himself waiting to board a flight from Perugia to Stansted with Boris. In characteristically disheveled fashion, Boris seemed flustered by the parade of people wanting to take selfies with him there. But whether that’s because he was hungover, or because they were interrupting the farewell he’d been trying to give a young Italian woman, it’s impossible to know. |
