A government wine cellar provides “guests of the government, from home and overseas, with wines of appropriate quality at reasonable cost”. Perhaps some of Boris Johnson’s children are kept down there too. We never seem to see many of them. And what happened to Dilyn the dog? We know Johnson was easily bored of new playmates. Is Dilyn cemented into the cellar floor? And maybe if someone has a poke between the wine racks, those missing mobile phones will turn up.
It has become clear that the anticipated publication of records of government wine cellar stock levels, specifically from the pandemic period of 2020 to 2022, is being inexplicably delayed by the Conservatives. Similarly we will never see the uncensored version of the Russia report on Kremlin influence on Brexit and British politics generally. Meanwhile 55 Tufton Street’s Conservative Friends of Russia and Vote Leave founder Matthew Elliott is on his way to the House of Lords, where he will legislate about laws, perhaps including the ones the high court agreed his Vote Leave campaign broke.
