Man of the People Boris Johnson’s New Year holidays. A brief history
In 2019/20 Johnson now PM, has spent the Christmas and New Year period at a private island Mustique with his current partner rather than his wife. Traditionally that would have been viewed in a poor light for a Tory leader (not doing it but the fact that’s public) but times change.
It is a pattern, although as a biographer notes usually the New Year holiday in an exclusive foreign location was in the past to repair relations with his wife after an episode with another woman, rather than to underline it.
10 years ago when London Mayor, as Sonia Purnell in Just Boris notes, he was at Serai on New Year’s Eve with his wife.
Purnell describes the location as ‘a luxury camp of tented villas in the Thar desert, Rajasthan.. Conde Naste Traveller observed the 24 ‘tents’ around a pool (in a desert) inspired by a traditional Indian step-well represented ‘a new level of luxury’.
Suites for two cost up to £716 for bed and breakfast per night.
Still as PM Johnson’s Government has just increased the minimum wage by 51p an hour. It is the cost of the 2020 holiday (allegedly a ‘gift’) and the public demonstration of luxury when millions are in poverty that is the issue here. Who Johnson does or does not have as a partner is a matter for him and the partner.
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